Pimping fictions

Description:

Gifford provides a hard-boiled investigation of hundreds of pulpy paperbacks written by Chester Himes, Donald Goines, and Iceberg Slim (aka Robert Beck), among many others. He draws from an impressive array of archival materials to provide a first-of-its-kind literary and cultural history of this distinctive genre, evaluating the artistic and symbolic representations of pimps, sex-workers, drug dealers, and political revolutionaries in African American crime literature.

subjects: African Americans in literature,  Holloway House Publishing Co,  Publishing,  American Urban fiction,  History and criticism,  Criticism and interpretation,  Crime in literature,  American Detective and mystery stories,  American Pulp literature,  African American authors,  American fiction,  History,  Himes, chester b., 1909-1984,  American fiction, african american authors, history and criticism,  Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism,  Authors, american

People: Chester B. Himes (1909-1984),  Iceberg Slim (1918-1992),  Donald Goines (1937-1974)