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The Blues Detective : A Study of African American Detective Fiction
author
:
Soitos, Stephen F.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870239953
print isbn13
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9780870239953
ebook isbn13
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9780585084169
language
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English
subject
Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism, American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism, African Americans in literature.
publication date
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1996
lcc
:
PS648.D4S577 1996eb
ddc
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813/.087208896073
subject
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Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism, American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism, African Americans in literature.
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The Blues Detective
A Study of African American Detecitve Fiction
Stephen F. Soitos
The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst
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Copyright 1996 by Stephen F. Soitos
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America LC 95-43872 ISBN 0-87023-995-3 (cloth); 996-1 (pbk.) Designed by Dennis Anderson Set in Sabon by dix! Printed and bound by Braun-Brumfield, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Soitos, Stephen F., 1947 The blues detective : a study of African American detective fiction / Stephen F. Soitos. P. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87023-995-3 (cloth : alk. paper).ISBN 0-87023-996-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Detective and mystery stories, AmericanAfro-American authors History and criticism. 2. Afro-Americans in literature. I. Title. PS648.D4S577 1996 813'.087208896073dc2095-43872 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
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Dedicated to my mother, Ledora, my sister Francine, my daughter Stefana, and Anne Marie Mascaro. In memory of my father. To Jimmy
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Contents
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xv
Introduction
3
1 The Paradigmatic Gesture
13
2 The Tropes of Black Detection
27
3 Early African American Adaptations of Detective Conventions
52
4 Detective of the Harlem Renaissance: Rudolph Fisher
93
5 City within a City: The Detective Fiction of Chester Himes
125
6 The Black Anti-Detective Novel
179
Afterword
220
Notes
237
Bibliography
245
Index
253
Page ix
Preface
The Blues Detective, like many a good mystery, evolved out of a coincidence of factors when, as both student and teacher, I concentrated my field of study on twentieth-century art forms. In analyzing African American expressive arts as well as the popular culture field of detective fiction, I saw a number of clues that suggested a connection between the two. The Blues Detective represents a dovetailing of my study of these two important American cultural creations, brought to fruition or, if you will, solution in a satisfying way.
One of my early surprises was realizing how quickly African Americans had adapted detective formulas to their own ends. One of the clues that put me on the trail of the blues detective was a repeated reference to a detective story that had been published early in the twentieth century in an obscure magazine or newspaper. Apparently, this novel not only was written by a black author but also had a black detective as hero. If I could find the story, I thought, it might predate The Conjure Man Dies (1932) by Rudolph Fisher and consequently might be the first known black detective novel. With help from Henry Louis Gates's Black Periodical Literature Project and Professor John Gruesser, I was able to locate this mysterious story as well as to uncover some additional interesting clues to the origins of black detective fiction. One of these discoveries was Pauline Hopkins's African American female detective, who appears in a work that predates all known black detective novels.
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