- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Greenwood Press (28 Feb 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0313266719
- ISBN-13: 978-0313266713
- Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,242,041 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"I was very impressed by Out of the Woodpile. I found it engrossing, illuminating, insightful, impeccably researched, beautifully written and as a white reader more than a little painful. Congratulations and thanks to Frankie Y. Bailey for an important work of both sociohistory and crime-fiction scholarship."-Bill Pronzini Mystery writer and Co-Editor of The Ethnic Detectives
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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 a socio-historical study of the evolution of black detectives and other African American characters in genre fiction. The volume's three divisions reflect the evolution of the status of African Americans in American society. The results of survey questions carried in "The Third Degree", the newsletter of the Mystery Writers of America, as well as the views of 14 crime writers on the creation of black characters in genre fiction are followed by the "Directory", which includes a sampling of cases featuring black characters, a list of black detectives, relevant works of fiction, film and television.
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As a developing genre detective fiction drew from a number of different sources, including records of the real-life exploits of famous criminals, gothic literature, horror stories, and tales of adventure. Read the first page
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