Two guns from Harlem
Subtitle: the detective fiction of Chester Himes
By: Robert E. Skinner.
Publisher: Bowling Green State University Popular Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Bowling Green, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Himes, Chester B., 1909- -- Criticism and interpretation; Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism; African American police in literature; African Americans in literature; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- In literature
Other titles: 2 guns from Harlem.
Description: Two Guns from Harlem probes Himes's early life and career for the roots of this series and for its heroes, Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. Skinner discusses how Himes's experience as a black man, combined with his unique outlook on sociology, politics, violence, sex, and race relations, resulted not only in an unusual portrait of black America but also opened the way for the creation of the ethnic and female hard-boiled detectives who followed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186).