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

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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LCCN 2012032598
ISBN9781439908105 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781439908112 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9781439908129 (e-book)

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