- Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 205 pages) : illustrations.
- Uniform Title
- Pimping fictions (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Pimping fictions (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- He jerked his pistol free and fired it at the pavement : Chester Himes and the transformation of American crime literature -- Pimping fictions : Iceberg Slim and the invention of pimp literature -- The revolution will not be televised : Donald Goines, Holloway House Publishing Company, and the radicalization of Black crime literature -- Black in a white paradise : utopias and imagined solutions in Black crime literature -- For he who is : Players magazine and the reimagining of the American pimp -- The women of street literature : contemporary Black crime fiction and the rise of the self-publishing marketplace.
- LCCN
- 2012032598
- OCLC
- ssj0000833875
- Author
Gifford, Justin, 1975-
- Title
Pimping fictions [electronic resource] : African American crime literature and the untold story of Black pulp publishing / Justin Gifford.
- Imprint
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2013]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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