The Critical Response to Chester Himes

Subjects:

• Literature » American Literature
• Literature » Mysteries
• Multicultural Studies » Black Studies

Reviews:

• Silet made a wise selection of the best critiques, analyses, and reviews....Since Himes's work has been adapted for motion pictures, thereby making the author a focal point of contemporary interest, this is a necessary and useful book for students and scholars who want to look at the large body of work by this prolific author. All academic collections.
  —Choice
• Charles L. P. Silet's The Critical Response to Chester Himes is a valuable one--volume reference to which the beginning Himes scholar can turn in order to see...the effect Himes's writing has had on critics and creative writers, black and white, American and European, for more than 50 years.
  —Paradoxa

Table of Contents:

• Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse
• Introduction
• The Writings of Chester Himes
• Reviews
• History as Nightmare by James Baldwin
• No Thrills in Harlem by Kofi Akainyah
• The Crazy Kill and If He Hollers Let Him Go by Sally Cragin
• The Best Black American Novelist Writing Today by Shane Stevens
• Rhythms of Black Experience by George E. Kent
• Chester Himes-'Alien' in Exile by Loyle Hairston
• A Case of Rape by Michel Fabre
• The Chester Himes Mystique by Gwendoline Lewis Roget
• Policier's Noirs by Fred Pfeil
• Chester Himes: The Collected Stories by James Robert Payne
• The Best of Himes, the Worst of Himes by Ishmael Reed
• Himes and Self-hatred by James Campbell
• Essays
• Domestic Harlem: The Detective Fiction of Chester Himes by Raymond Nelson
• Violence Real and Imagined: The Novels of Chester Himes by A. Robert Lee
• Chester Himes: A Nigger by Maureen Liston
• The Use of the Doppelganger or Double in Chester Himes' Lonely Crusade by Ralph Reckley
• Chester Himes and the Art of Fiction by Angus Calder
• Chester Himes and the Hard-Boiled Tradition by Jay R. Berry
• In America's Black Heartland: The Achievement of Chester Himes by James Sallis
• Postscript: A Case of Rape by Calvin Hernton
• Topographies of Violence: Chester Himes' Harlem Domestic Novels by Michael Denning
• Space and Civil Rights Ideology: The Example of Chester Himes's The Third Generation by Claude Julien
• Toni Morrison's Variations on Chester Himes by Aribert Schroeder
• The Black Man in the Literature of Labor: The Early Novels of Chester Himes by Robert Skinner
• Limited Options: Strategic Maneuverings in Himes's Harlem by Wendy W. Walters
• African American Anti-Semitism and Himes's Lonely Crusade by Steven J. Rosen
• Slaying the Fathers: The Autobiography of Chester Himes by Gary Storhoff
• An Interview
• Chester Himes-The Ethics of Ambiguity: An Interview with Joseph Sandy Himes, Jr. by Gwendoline Lewis Roget
• Bibliography
• Index