Pimping fictions

By Justin Gifford

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

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.