Out of the Woodpile: Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction

by Frankie Y. Bailey

Contending that a mythology of race consisting of themes of sex and savagery exists in the United States and is perpetuated in popular culture, Frankie Y. Bailey identifies stereotypical images of blacks in crime and detective fiction and probes the implied values and collective fantasies found there. Out of the Woodpile is the first sociohistorical study of the evolution of black detectives and other African American characters in genre...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313266719
• ISBN13: 9780313266713
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.5"