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Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing
Pimping Fictions African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing
Author: Justin Gifford
"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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781439908105
ISBN-10: 1439908109
Publication Date: 1/25/2013
Pages: 214
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Publisher: American Literatures Initiative
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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