Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing
Awards:   Short-listed for Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Critical/Biographical) 2014
Author:   Justin Gifford
Publisher:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Edition:   American Literatures Initiative
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9781439908105


Pages:   216
Publication Date:   25 January 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing


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Awards

  • Short-listed for Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Critical/Biographical) 2014

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The first literary and cultural history of African American crime literature, unveiling the untold story of black pulp publishing since the Civil Rights era

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Author:   Justin Gifford
Publisher:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Edition:   American Literatures Initiative
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9781439908105


ISBN 10:   1439908109
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   25 January 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1  “He Jerked His Pistol Free and Fired It at the Pavement”: Chester Himes and the Transformation of American Crime Literature 2  Pimping Fictions: Iceberg Slim and the Invention of Pimp Literature 3  The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Donald Goines, Holloway House Publishing Company, and the Radicalization of Black Crime Literature 4  Black in a White Paradise: Utopias and Imagined Solutions in Black Crime Literature 5  “For He Who Is”: Players Magazine and the Reimagining of the American Pimp 6  The Women of Street Literature: Contemporary Black Crime Fiction and the Rise of the Self-Publishing Marketplace Notes Index

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Gifford's groundbreaking study of the 'art and business of black crime literature' is ingenious in its embrace of elements of street literature from historical and literary perspectives along with the culture of the writers who produce it, the commercial enterprises that publish it, and the 'white-controlled spaces' they occupy and must negotiate... In exploring how these writers, little noticed by academia or mainstream media, negotiate the connection between white-controlled spaces in urban centers, prisons, and publishing, Gifford makes a persuasive case for their importance. Publishers Weekly, December 2012


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Justin D. Gifford is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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