TY - BOOK AU - Gifford,Justin ED - Project Muse. TI - Pimping fictions: African American crime literature and the untold story of Black pulp publishing SN - 9781439908129 AV - PS374.N4 G485 2013 U1 - 813/.087209896073 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Philadelphia PB - Temple University Press KW - Iceberg Slim, KW - Goines, Donald, KW - Himes, Chester B., KW - Holloway House Publishing Co KW - History KW - Pulp literature, American KW - Publishing KW - Crime in literature KW - African Americans in literature KW - Urban fiction, American KW - History and criticism KW - Detective and mystery stories, American KW - American fiction KW - African American authors KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781439908129/ ER -