The Blues Detective: A Study of African American Detective Fiction

by Stephen F. Soitos

Book Overview

This illuminating book makes the case for a tradition of African American detective fiction--novels written by black Americans about black detectives and incorporating distinctly African American tropes and themes. Beginning with Pauline Hopkins in 1901, black authors consciously altered and subverted the formulas of detective fiction in significant ways. Such writers as J. E. Bruce, Rudolph Fisher, Chester Himes, Ishmael Reed, and Clarence Major...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870239961
• ISBN13: 9780870239960
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher