Two guns from Harlem
the detective fiction of Chester Himes
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Author
Publication
1989 - Bowling Green State University Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohio, Ohio
Language
English
Word Count
47,500 words, Guess
Page Count
190 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2222906M
- ISBN-100879724536
- OCLC Control Number20580143
- OCLC Control Numbertwogunsfromharle0000skin
- Library of Congress Control Number89060980
and 2 more
- LibraryThing792023
- Goodreads3130655
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3515.I713 Z87 1989
Alternate Titles
- 2 guns from Harlem.
Description
Two Guns from Harlem probes Himes's early life and career for the roots of this series and for its heroes, Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. Skinner discusses how Himes's experience as a black man, combined with his unique outlook on sociology, politics, violence, sex, and race relations, resulted not only in an unusual portrait of black America but also opened the way for the creation of the ethnic and female hard-boiled detectives who followed.
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