African American mystery writers

By Frankie Y. Bailey

Subjects: American fiction, Intellectual life, Popular literature, American fiction, african american authors, history and criticism, African Americans, African americans in literature, American Detective and mystery stories, African Americans in literature, Popular literature, history and criticism, African American authors, History and criticism, African americans, intellectual life, Themes, motives, Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism

Description: "This book examines works of African American mystery writers within the social and historical contexts of African American literature on crime and justice. Chapters cover the movement by Black authors from slave narratives and antebellum newspapers to fiction writing; the transition from early genre writers to protest writers of the 1940s and 1950s"--Provided by publisher.