Black Pulp: Genre Fiction In The Shadow Of Jim Crow Brooks E Hefner University Minnesota Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Essays And Literary Reference

A Deep Dive Into Mid-Century African American Newspapers Exploring How Black Pulp Fiction Reassembled Genre Formulas In The Service Of Racial Justice Recent Years Jordan Peele\ S Get Out Marvel\ Panther And Hbo\ Watchmen Have Been Lauded For Innovative Ways They Repurpose Conventions To Criticize White Supremacy Celebrate Resistance Imagine More Racially Just World-Important Progressive Messages Widely Spread Precisely Because Are Packaged Popular Genres But It Turns Such Generic Retooling Antiracist Purposes Is Nothing New As Brooks E Hefner\ Shows This Tradition Revision Begins Even Earlier Than Studies Superhero Comics 1960S Revealed Hefner Traces Back Phenomenon That Began 1920S Serialized (And Sometimes Syndicated) Stories Written By Authors With Large Circulations Among Middle- Working-Class Readers From Pages Pittsburgh Courier Baltimore Afro-American Recovers Rich Archive Through Mid-1950S-Spanning Everything Romance Hero-Adventure Crime Westerns Science Reading These Explores Their Deployed Critiqued Formulas-And Pleasures Offer Readers-In Justice: Jim Crow Segregation Capitalism Sexual Exploitation Women Successful Interracial Collective Sociopolitical Progress Cheer Agency Retributive Violence Face Differ Significantly Contemporaneous Now-Canonized Protest Novels Tend Represent America Deterministic Machine Its Inhabitants Doomed Victims Consumed Since Forgotten Stories-And Incisive Analysis Them-Offer Vibrant Understanding Literary History Σελίδες: 248 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm