Research Catalog

Title

The African American experience in crime fiction : a critical study / Robert E. Crafton.

Author

Crafton, Robert E., 1953-

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.

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Holdings

Details

Description

205 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"An immensely popular genre, crime fiction has only in recent years been engaged by African-American authors. Historically, the racist stereotypes often central to crime fiction and the socially conservative nature of the genre presented problems for writing the black experience"--

Subject

• American fiction > History and criticism
• Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism
• Urban fiction, American > History and criticism
• African Americans in literature
• Crime in literature
• Crime writing
• American fiction > African American authors
• Crime in literature
• Crime writing
• Detective and mystery stories, American
• Urban fiction, American

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

High anxiety -- A more perfect union: Pauline Hopkins, Hagar's Daughter and the struggle for equality -- "A mystery tale of dark Harlem": rounding up the usual suspects -- Plus ça change: Chester Himes's Harlem Domestic Series -- Entr' Acte: a postmodernist interlude -- Falling into history: easy Rawlins and the Arc of African American experience -- Our kind of people: Stephen L. Carter and the mysteries of the Black Bourgeoisie -- Detecting difference?

ISBN

• 9780786499380 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786499389 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 9781476621296 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015017988

OCLC

• 907094441
• SCSB-11621763

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library