An edition of Pimping fictions
(2013)
Pimping fictions
African American crime literature and the untold story of Black pulp publishing
by Justin Gifford
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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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African Americans in literature, Holloway House Publishing Co, Publishing, American Urban fiction, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Crime in literature, American Detective and mystery stories, American Pulp literature, African American authors, American fiction, History, Himes, chester b., 1909-1984, American fiction, african american authors, history and criticism, Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism, African americans in literature, Authors, americanShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Pimping fictions: African American crime literature and the untold story of Black pulp publishing
2013
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1439908109 9781439908105
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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