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By Justin Gifford

"Lush intercourse and stark violence coloured Black and served up uncooked by means of an exceptional Negro writer," promised the canopy of Run guy Run, Chester Himes' pioneering novel within the black crime fiction culture. In Pimping Fictions, Justin Gifford presents a hard-boiled research of thousands of pulpy paperbacks written by means of Himes, Donald Goines, and Iceberg narrow (aka Robert Beck), between many others.

Gifford attracts from a magnificent array of archival fabrics to supply a first-of-its-kind literary and cultural heritage of this particular style. He evaluates the creative and symbolic representations of pimps, sex-workers, drug buyers, and political revolutionaries in African American crime literature-characters seeking to break out the racial containment of prisons and the ghetto.

Gifford additionally explores the struggles of those black writers within the literary industry, from the period of white-owned publishing homes like Holloway House-that fed books and magazines like avid gamers to keen black readers-to the modern crop of African American girls writers reclaiming the style as their own.

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