The African American experience in crime fiction : a critical study / Robert E. Crafton.
Material type: TextPublisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9781476621296
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- American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism
- Urban fiction, American -- History and criticism
- African Americans in literature
- Crime in literature
- Crime writing
- Roman américain -- Auteurs noirs américains -- Histoire et critique
- Noirs américains dans la littérature
- Criminalité dans la littérature
- Littérature policière -- Art d'écrire
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- African Americans in literature
- American fiction -- African American authors
- Crime in literature
- Crime writing
- Detective and mystery stories, American
- Urban fiction, American
- 813.009/896073 23
- PS374.N4 C73 2015eb
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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface: Putting Things in Perspective -- 1. High Anxiety -- 2. A More Perfect Union: Pauline Hopkins, Hagar's Daughter and the Struggle for Equality -- 3. "A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem": Rounding Up the Usual Suspects -- 4. Plus ça change: Chester Himes's Harlem Domestic Series -- 5. Entr'Acte: A Postmodernist Interlude -- 6. Falling into History: Easy Rawlins and the Arc of African American Experience -- 7. Our Kind of People: Stephen L. Carter and the Mysteries of the Black Bourgeoisie -- 8. Detecting Difference? -- Chapter Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
An immensely popular genre, crime fiction has only in recent years been engaged significantly by African American authors. Historically, the racist stereotypes often central to crime fiction and the socially conservative nature of the genre presented problems for writing the black experience, and the tropes of justice and restoration of social order have not resonated with authors who saw social justice as a work in progress. Some African American authors did take up the challenge. Pauline Hopkins, Rudolph Fisher and Chester Himes led the way in the first half of the 20th century, followed by.
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