African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study
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African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study

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Full Title

African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study
Author(s)

Frankie Y. Bailey
Edition
ISBN

9780786452330, 9780786433391
Publisher

McFarland
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

The book describes the movement by African American authors from slave narratives and antebellum newspapers into fiction writing, and the subsequent developments of black genre fiction through the present. It analyzes works by modern African American mystery writers, focusing on sleuths, the social locations of crime, victims and offenders, the notion of “doing justice,” and the role of African American cultural vernacular in mystery fiction. A final section focuses on readers and reading, examining African American mystery writers’ access to the marketplace and the issue of the “double audience” raised by earlier writers. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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