Charles L. P. Silet

The Critical Response to Chester Himes

Herausgeber: Silet, Charles L. P.

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Produktbeschreibung

The work of Chester Himes is now undergoing a critical and popular reevaluation as it gradually comes back into print after years of neglect. His protest novels from the 1940s and early 1950s, his Harlem Domestic crime books, first published in France and later released in English in the United States, and his remarkable two-volume autobiography are now gaining a wider readership through their republication. Nonetheless, the critical writings on his work remain scattered and are often difficult to obtain. This collection of reviews and essays from both popular and academic sources traces the critical response to his work from 1946 to 1996 and thus sheds light on the critical reputation of one of the most distinguished but underrated African American authors. Himes has a wide international reputation, but this reference book focuses on those essays and reviews in the English language which provide a clearer assessment of his controversial literary standing in his native country, where his reputation has been most under debate. The book includes a balanced assessment of all his work, along with an interview with Himes's brother that offers some corrective commentary on his autobiography. The volume also provides a chronology, a checklist of his writings, and a bibliography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 677g
• ISBN-13: 9780313299414
• ISBN-10: 0313299412
• Artikelnr.: 21552213

Autorenporträt

CHARLES L.P. SILET is Professor of English at Iowa State University. He has written widely on crime and mystery fiction and his articles, reviews, and interviews have appeared in journals both in the United States and abroad. He was a Consulting Editor for The Armchair Detective and is presently a Consulting Editor for the new Strand Magazine. His most recent book is Talking Murder: 20 Interviews with Mystery and Crime Writers.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse Introduction The Writings of Chester
Himes Reviews History as Nightmare by James Baldwin No Thrills in Harlem by
Kofi Akainyah The Crazy Kill and If He Hollers Let Him Go by Sally Cragin
The Best Black American Novelist Writing Today by Shane Stevens Rhythms of
Black Experience by George E. Kent Chester Himes-'Alien' in Exile by Loyle
Hairston A Case of Rape by Michel Fabre The Chester Himes Mystique by
Gwendoline Lewis Roget Policier's Noirs by Fred Pfeil Chester Himes: The
Collected Stories by James Robert Payne The Best of Himes, the Worst of
Himes by Ishmael Reed Himes and Self-hatred by James Campbell Essays
Domestic Harlem: The Detective Fiction of Chester Himes by Raymond Nelson
Violence Real and Imagined: The Novels of Chester Himes by A. Robert Lee
Chester Himes: A Nigger by Maureen Liston The Use of the Doppelganger or
Double in Chester Himes' Lonely Crusade by Ralph Reckley Chester Himes and
the Art of Fiction by Angus Calder Chester Himes and the Hard-Boiled
Tradition by Jay R. Berry In America's Black Heartland: The Achievement of
Chester Himes by James Sallis Postscript: A Case of Rape by Calvin Hernton
Topographies of Violence: Chester Himes' Harlem Domestic Novels by Michael
Denning Space and Civil Rights Ideology: The Example of Chester Himes's The
Third Generation by Claude Julien Toni Morrison's Variations on Chester
Himes by Aribert Schroeder The Black Man in the Literature of Labor: The
Early Novels of Chester Himes by Robert Skinner Limited Options: Strategic
Maneuverings in Himes's Harlem by Wendy W. Walters African American
Anti-Semitism and Himes's Lonely Crusade by Steven J. Rosen Slaying the
Fathers: The Autobiography of Chester Himes by Gary Storhoff An Interview
Chester Himes-The Ethics of Ambiguity: An Interview with Joseph Sandy
Himes, Jr. by Gwendoline Lewis Roget Bibliography Index