Pimping fictions: African American crime literature and the untold story of black pulp publishing

Abstract

Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Jerked His Pistol Free and Fired It at the Pavement: Chester Himes and the Transformation of American Crime Literature 2 Pimping Fictions: Iceberg Slim and the Invention of Pimp Literature 3 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Donald Goines, Holloway House Publishing Company, and the Radicalization of Black Crime Literature 4 Black in a White Paradise: Utopias and Imagined Solutions in Black Crime Literature 5 For He Who Is: Players Magazine and the Reimagining of the American Pimp 6 The Women of Street Literature: Contemporary Black Crime Fiction and the Rise of the Self-Publishing Marketplace Notes Index