Pimping fictions
Gifford, Justin, 1975-
Pimping fictions African American crime literature and the untold story of Black pulp publishing / [electronic resource] : Justin Gifford. - Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (ix, 205 pages :) illustrations ;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781439908129 1439908125
Iceberg Slim, 1918-1992. Pimp.
Goines, Donald, 1937-1974 --Criticism and interpretation.
Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984 --Criticism and interpretation.
Holloway House Publishing Co.--History.
Pulp literature, American--Publishing--History.
Crime in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Urban fiction, American--History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.
American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS374.N4 / G485 2013
813/.087209896073
Pimping fictions African American crime literature and the untold story of Black pulp publishing / [electronic resource] : Justin Gifford. - Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (ix, 205 pages :) illustrations ;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781439908129 1439908125
Iceberg Slim, 1918-1992. Pimp.
Goines, Donald, 1937-1974 --Criticism and interpretation.
Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984 --Criticism and interpretation.
Holloway House Publishing Co.--History.
Pulp literature, American--Publishing--History.
Crime in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Urban fiction, American--History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.
American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS374.N4 / G485 2013
813/.087209896073