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Black pulp : genre fiction in the shadow of Jim Crow /

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A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justice.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hefner, Brooks E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021].
Subjects:
Pulp literature, American > History and criticism.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
African American newspapers > History > 20th century.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Racism > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Signifying genre, articulating race
  • Beneath the Harlem Renaissance : the rise of black popular fiction
  • Romancing the race : the politics of black love stories
  • News from elsewhere : speculative fiction in the black press
  • Battling white supremacy : a prehistory of the black superhero
  • Conclusion : Writing new histories.