Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing

by Justin Gifford

Book Overview

"Lush sex and stark violence colored Black and served up raw by a great Negro writer," promised the cover of Run Man Run, Chester Himes' pioneering novel in the black crime fiction tradition. In Pimping Fictions, Justin Gifford provides a hard-boiled investigation of hundreds of pulpy paperbacks written by Himes, Donald Goines, and Iceberg Slim (aka Robert Beck), among many others.

Gifford draws from an impressive array of archival...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439908117
• ISBN13: 9781439908112
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: American Literatures Initiative
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"