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Loading... Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishingby Justin Gifford
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""Lush sex and stark violence colored Black and served up raw by a great Negro writer,"" promised the cover of Run Man Run, Chester Himes' pioneering novel in the black crime fiction tradition. In Pimping Fictions, Justin Gifford provides a hard-boiled investigation of hundreds of pulpy paperbacks written by Himes, Donald Goines, and Iceberg Slim (aka Robert Beck), among many others.Gifford draws from an impressive array of archival materials to provide a first-of-its-kind literary and cultural history of this distinctive genre. He evaluates the artistic and symbolic No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.087209896073Literature English (North America) American fiction By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Mystery fictionLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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