Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
African American mystery writers African American mystery writers Frankie Y. Bailey "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 autho… OL1957003W
Queer pulp Queer pulp Susan Stryker From homicidal homos to locked-up lesbians, and almost every sexually dangerous combination in between, Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback is the first complete expos… OL2954889W
Scene of the crime Scene of the crime David Geherin "Offering analysis of the fiction of 15 authors, this book focuses on ways that setting and place figure in modern crime and mystery novels. After an introductory chapter dealing with general conside… OL4638538W
Feminist popular fiction Feminist popular fiction Merja Makinen "Can feminist writers appropriate popular genres? This book argues that they can and have done so successfully. Situating feminist writers' move into genre fiction as part of the left's interest in t… OL4799308W