An edition of Pimping fictions (2013)

Pimping fictions

African American crime literature and the untold story of Black pulp publishing

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An edition of Pimping fictions (2013)

Pimping fictions

African American crime literature and the untold story of Black pulp publishing

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Gifford provides a hard-boiled investigation of hundreds of pulpy paperbacks written by Chester Himes, Donald Goines, and Iceberg Slim (aka Robert Beck), among many others. He draws from an impressive array of archival materials to provide a first-of-its-kind literary and cultural history of this distinctive genre, evaluating the artistic and symbolic representations of pimps, sex-workers, drug dealers, and political revolutionaries in African American crime literature.

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English
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Table of Contents

He jerked his pistol free and fired it at the pavement : Chester Himes and the transformation of American crime literature
Pimping fictions : Iceberg Slim and the invention of pimp literature
The revolution will not be televised : Donald Goines, Holloway House Publishing Company, and the radicalization of Black crime literature
Black in a white paradise : utopias and imagined solutions in Black crime literature
For he who is : Players magazine and the reimagining of the American pimp
The women of street literature : contemporary Black crime fiction and the rise of the self-publishing marketplace.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.087209896073
Library of Congress
PS374.N4 G485 2013, PS374.N4G485 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 205 pages
Number of pages
205

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26881989M
Internet Archive
pimpingfictionsa0000giff
ISBN 10
1439908109, 1439908117
ISBN 13
9781439908105, 9781439908112
LCCN
2012032598
OCLC/WorldCat
798617121

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