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

ISBN: 0786433396

ISBN13: 9780786433391

African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study

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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...

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