Black Pulp - 9781517911560

Black PulpGenre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow\nAuthor(s): Brooks E. Hefner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9781517911560, 978-1517911560\nSynopsis\nA deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justice\n\n In recent years, Jordan Peeles Get Out, Marvels Black Panther, and HBOs 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. But it turns out, such generic retooling for antiracist purposes is nothing new. \n\nAs Brooks E. Hefners Black Pulp shows, this tradition of antiracist genre revision begins even earlier than recent studies of Black superhero comics of the 1960s.