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

Justin D. Gifford is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1  “He 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

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