Chester Himes and the Popular Novel
A Voice for Existential Blackness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20220515 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Duran (0000-0002-3504-9934, University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-39 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophia Africana (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1539-8250 • E-ISSN: 1944-7914 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/philafri.19.1.0027 |
| OpenAlex | W4285708607 |
| Language | EN |
The work of Chester Himes, as exemplified by Real Cool Killers, is examined for its attention to social issues. It is concluded, as Polito has contended, that Himes is gifted at portraying an inner-city world and its problems. In a sense, Himes’s work also speaks to the post-World War II existential issues that drive some of the writing of Richard Wright
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Existentialism · Sociology · Wright · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Modernist Literature and Criticism · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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