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

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

Justin Gifford

216 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

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"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-boi...

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