{"product_id":"pimping-fictions-justin-gifford-9781439908112","title":"Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing","description":"\"Lush sex and stark violence colored Black and served up raw by a great Negro writer,\" promised the cover of\u003ci\u003e Run Man Run\u003c\/i\u003e, Chester Himes' pioneering novel in the black crime fiction tradition. In \u003ci\u003ePimping Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e, Justin Gifford provides a hard-boiled investigation of hundreds of pulpy paperbacks written by Himes, Donald Goines, and Iceberg Slim (aka Robert Beck), among many others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGifford draws from an impressive array of archival materials to provide a first-of-its-kind literary and cultural history of this distinctive genre. He evaluates the artistic and symbolic representations of pimps, sex-workers, drug dealers, and political revolutionaries in African American crime literature-characters looking to escape the racial containment of prisons and the ghetto. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGifford also explores the struggles of these black writers in the literary marketplace, from the era of white-owned publishing houses like Holloway House-that fed books and magazines like Players to eager black readers-to the contemporary crop of African American women writers reclaiming the genre as their own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Justin Gifford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1439908117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439908112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e American Literatures Initiative\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/25\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/24\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2013","brand":"Justin Gifford","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935009603839,"sku":"9781439908112","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f43e785e-4e65-4d2c-8c08-eb70a41da692.jpg?v=1681417325","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pimping-fictions-justin-gifford-9781439908112","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}