Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Hefner Brooks E.
Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Hefner Brooks E. A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the…
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Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Hefner Brooks E.
A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justiceIn recent years, Jordan Peele's Get Out, Marvel's Black Panther, and HBO's Watchmen have been lauded for the innovative ways they repurpose genre conventions to criticize white supremacy, celebrate Black resistance, and imagine a more racially just world--important progressive messages widely spread precisely because they are packaged in popular genres. Hefner's Black Pulp shows, this tradition of antiracist genre revision begins even earlier than recent studies of Black superhero comics of the 1960s have revealed. But it turns out, such generic retooling for antiracist purposes is nothing new.As Brooks E.
Hefner traces it back to a phenomenon that began in the 1920s, to serialized (and
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