Racism and Violence in Gar Anthony Haywood’s P. I. Fiction

Gar Anthony Haywood is the first African American writer, forty years after Chester Himes, to write a crime fiction series with a black hero. The main character is a rather conventional P. I. but the novels stand out because of the running commentary on issues of race, violence, sexism, and homophob...

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Hlavní autor: Décuré, Nicole
Médium: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jazyk:Anglais
Vydáno: Angles 2020
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Shrnutí:Gar Anthony Haywood is the first African American writer, forty years after Chester Himes, to write a crime fiction series with a black hero. The main character is a rather conventional P. I. but the novels stand out because of the running commentary on issues of race, violence, sexism, and homophobia.