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| Named Person: | Chester B Himes; Chester Himes |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles L P Silet |
| ISBN: | 0313299412 9780313299414 |
| OCLC Number: | 41411910 |
| Description: | xxxi, 288 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I. Reviews -- History as nightmare / James Baldwin -- No thrills in Harlem / Kofi Akainyah -- The crazy kill and If he hollers let him go / Sally Cragin -- The best Black American novelist writing today / Shane Stevens -- Rhythms of Black experience / George E. Kent -- Chester Himes - "alien" in exile / Loyle Hairston -- A case of rape / Michel Fabre -- The Chester Himes mystique / Gwendoline Lewis Roget -- Policiers noirs / Fred Pfeil -- Chester Himes : the collected stories / James Robert Payne -- The best of Himes, the worst of Himes / Ishmael Reed -- Himes and self-hatred / James Campbell -- Part II. Essays -- Domestic Harlem : the detective fiction of Chester Himes / Raymond Nelson -- Violence real and imagined : the novels of Chester Himes / A. Robert Lee -- Chester Himes : "A Nigger" / Maureen Liston -- The use of the doppelgnager or double in Chester Himes's Lonely crusade / Ralph Reckley -- Chester Himes and the art of fiction / Angus Calder -- Chester Himes and the hard-boiled tradition / Jay R. Berry, Jr. -- In America's Black heartland : the achievement of Chester Himes / James Sallis -- Postscript : a case of rape / Calvin Hernton -- Topographies of violence : Chester Himes' Harlem domestic novels / Michael Denning -- Space and civil rights ideology : the example of Chester Himes's The third generation / Claude Julien -- Toni Morrison's variations on Chester Himes / Aribert Schroeder -- The Black man in the literature of labor : the early novels of Chester Himes / Robert Skinner -- Limited options : strategic maneuverings in Himes's Harlem / Wendy W. Walters -- African American anti-Semitism and Himes's Lonely crusade / Steven J. Rosen -- Slaying the fathers : the autobiography of Chester Himes / Gary Storhoff -- An interview -- Chester Himes - the ethics of ambiguity : an interview with Joseph Sandy Himes, Jr. / Gwendoline Lewis Roget. |
| Series Title: | Critical responses in arts and letters, no. 34 |
| Responsibility: | edited by Charles L.P. Silet. |
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