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Author:

Gifford, Justin, 1975-

Title:

Pimping fictions : African American crime literature and the untold story of Black pulp publishing / Justin Gifford.

Publisher:

Temple University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

ix, 205 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Himes, Chester B.,--1909-1984--Criticism and interpretation.
Goines, Donald,--1937-1974--Criticism and interpretation.
Iceberg Slim,--1918-1992.--Pimp.
Holloway House Publishing Co.--History.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.
Urban fiction, American--History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
Crime in literature.
Pulp literature, American--History.--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-197) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

1439908117 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781439908112 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1439908109 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781439908105 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2012032598

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)