Pimping fictions [electronic resource] : African American crime literature and the untold story of Black pulp publishing / Justin Gifford.
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- 9781439908129
- 1439908125
- 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
- Holloway House Publishing Co. -- History
- Iceberg Slim, 1918-1992. Pimp
- Goines, Donald, 1937-1974 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984 -- Criticism and interpretation
- 813/.087209896073 23
- PS374.N4 G485 2013
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.
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