The Resource Street players : black pulp fiction and the making of a literary underground, Kinohi Nishikawa
Street players : black pulp fiction and the making of a literary underground, Kinohi Nishikawa
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- Summary
- The uncontested center of the black pulp fiction universe for more than four decades was the Los Angeles publisher Holloway House. From the late 1960s until it closed in 2008, Holloway House specialized in cheap paperbacks with page-turning narratives featuring black protagonists in crime stories, conspiracy thrillers, prison novels, and Westerns. From Iceberg Slim's Pimp to Donald Goines's Never Die Alone, the thread that tied all of these books together--and made them distinct from the majority of American pulp - was an unfailing veneration of black masculinity. Zeroing in on Holloway House, Street Players explores how this world of black pulp fiction was produced, received, and recreated over time and across different communities of readers.0Kinohi Nishikawa contends that black pulp fiction was built on white readers' fears of the feminization of society--and the appeal of black masculinity as a way to counter it. In essence, it was the original form of blaxploitation: a strategy of mass-marketing race to suit the reactionary fantasies of a white audience. But while chauvinism and misogyny remained troubling yet constitutive aspects of this literature, from 1973 onward, Holloway House moved away from publishing sleaze for a white audience to publishing solely for black readers. The standard account of this literary phenomenon is based almost entirely on where this literature ended up: in the hands of black, male, working-class readers. When it closed, Holloway House was synonymous with genre fiction written by black authors for black readers - a field of cultural production that Nishikawa terms the black literary underground
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 305 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: from sleaze to street
- Origins
- Up from domesticity
- Street legends
- Black sleaze
- Transitions
- Missing the revolution
- Return of The Mack
- Trajectories
- Difference and repetition
- Reading the street
- The difference within
- Epilogue: and back again
- Isbn
- 9780226586915
- Label
- Street players : black pulp fiction and the making of a literary underground
- Title
- Street players
- Title remainder
- black pulp fiction and the making of a literary underground
- Statement of responsibility
- Kinohi Nishikawa
- Title variation
- Black pulp fiction and the making of a literary underground
- Subject
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- African Americans in literature
- African Americans in literature
- American fiction -- 20th century -- African American authors | History and criticism
- American fiction -- African American authors
- American fiction -- African American authors
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Holloway House Publishing Co
- 1900-1999
- Holloway House Publishing Co
- Race in literature
- Race in literature
- Race in literature
- Urban fiction, American
- Urban fiction, American
- Urban fiction, American -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Holloway House Publishing Co
- African Americans in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The uncontested center of the black pulp fiction universe for more than four decades was the Los Angeles publisher Holloway House. From the late 1960s until it closed in 2008, Holloway House specialized in cheap paperbacks with page-turning narratives featuring black protagonists in crime stories, conspiracy thrillers, prison novels, and Westerns. From Iceberg Slim's Pimp to Donald Goines's Never Die Alone, the thread that tied all of these books together--and made them distinct from the majority of American pulp - was an unfailing veneration of black masculinity. Zeroing in on Holloway House, Street Players explores how this world of black pulp fiction was produced, received, and recreated over time and across different communities of readers.0Kinohi Nishikawa contends that black pulp fiction was built on white readers' fears of the feminization of society--and the appeal of black masculinity as a way to counter it. In essence, it was the original form of blaxploitation: a strategy of mass-marketing race to suit the reactionary fantasies of a white audience. But while chauvinism and misogyny remained troubling yet constitutive aspects of this literature, from 1973 onward, Holloway House moved away from publishing sleaze for a white audience to publishing solely for black readers. The standard account of this literary phenomenon is based almost entirely on where this literature ended up: in the hands of black, male, working-class readers. When it closed, Holloway House was synonymous with genre fiction written by black authors for black readers - a field of cultural production that Nishikawa terms the black literary underground
- Cataloging source
- ICU/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Nishikawa, Kinohi
- Dewey number
- 813.009/896073
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS153.N5
- LC item number
- N57 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Holloway House Publishing Co
- American fiction
- Urban fiction, American
- African Americans in literature
- Race in literature
- Holloway House Publishing Co
- African Americans in literature
- American fiction
- Race in literature
- Urban fiction, American
- Label
- Street players : black pulp fiction and the making of a literary underground, Kinohi Nishikawa
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-290) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: from sleaze to street -- Origins -- Up from domesticity -- Street legends -- Black sleaze -- Transitions -- Missing the revolution -- Return of The Mack -- Trajectories -- Difference and repetition -- Reading the street -- The difference within -- Epilogue: and back again
- Control code
- 1028911584
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 305 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226586915
- Lccn
- 2018010068
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1028911584
- Label
- Street players : black pulp fiction and the making of a literary underground, Kinohi Nishikawa
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-290) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: from sleaze to street -- Origins -- Up from domesticity -- Street legends -- Black sleaze -- Transitions -- Missing the revolution -- Return of The Mack -- Trajectories -- Difference and repetition -- Reading the street -- The difference within -- Epilogue: and back again
- Control code
- 1028911584
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 305 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226586915
- Lccn
- 2018010068
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1028911584
Subject
- African Americans in literature
- African Americans in literature
- American fiction -- 20th century -- African American authors | History and criticism
- American fiction -- African American authors
- American fiction -- African American authors
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Holloway House Publishing Co
- 1900-1999
- Holloway House Publishing Co
- Race in literature
- Race in literature
- Race in literature
- Urban fiction, American
- Urban fiction, American
- Urban fiction, American -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Holloway House Publishing Co
- African Americans in literature
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