Street players : black pulp fiction and the making of a literary underground / Kinohi Nishikawa.

9780226587073 (ebook) :

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.

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Black pulp fiction flourished as a popular literary genre in the final quarter of the twentieth century. The genre's market success belied the fact that it was published by a single company for over forty years. That company, Los Angeles-based Holloway House, started out as the mass-market paperback arm of two pinup magazines. Like those periodicals, the press assumed a white male readership. This text recounts the curious history of how this white-owned, white-oriented enterprise came to embrace genre fiction by black authors for black readers.

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September 27, 2019

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