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Chester Himes - An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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Chester Himes - An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Series: Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African Studies
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A contemporary of Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison,
Chester Himes wrote with perhaps more angry fire than his
celebrated colleagues about black protagonists doomed by white
racisim and self-hate. Among his writings is a series of
hard-boiled detective novels featuring black detectives and a host
of Harlem hustlers. The acclaimed Harlem series and much of his
later work were written in France where Himes lived as an American
expatriate from 1953 until his death in 1984. Exhaustively
researched and well constructed, this comprehensive bibliography
clears up mysteries and dispels misconceptions about the extent of
Himes's work and its critical reception. The primary bibliography
identifies all United States, French, and British first and second
editions of Himes's novels, the first appearances in periodicals of
his short stories, his collected fiction, and his magazine and
book-length nonfiction pieces. It includes manuscript materials and
a filmography of adaptations of his novels. The annotated secondary
bibliography provides a key to the biographical and critical work
produced about Himes in the United States, Britain, and France
since the late 1940s. Chronologically organized, it is indexed by
author and by titles of the relevant Himes's works. The volume's
introduction outlines Himes's life and career, discusses gaps in
his writing history, and attempts to provide a more realistic
picture of his critical reception in the United States based on an
analysis of the secondary bibliography rather than on previous
views influenced by Himes's own negative perceptions. A chronology
of Himes's career is also included, and the volume's preface
explains the organization of the bibliography and how to use it.
This work will be of special value to university libraries offering
programs in popular culture, American literature, and African
American studies as well as to individual scholars and researchers
in these fields and scholars and collectors interested particularly
in Himes and his works.
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