‘A Whole Other World than What I Live in’: Reading Chester Himes, on Campus and at the County Jail
This essay first briefly examines African American novelist Chester Himes’ genre-defying position as prison writer turned detective writer, whose influence is clear not only in the usual suspects such as Walter Mosley but also in the Blaxploitation films of the early 1970s, and in the urban fiction...
Main Author: | Ed Wiltse |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2023-01-01
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Series: | Humanities |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/12/1/11 |
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