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The Several Lives of Chester Himes » Read Now
by Michel Fabre, Edward Margolies. 209 pgs.

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A critical biography that reveals the varied profiles of the expatriate author.
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Yesterday Will Make You Cry (Originally Published under the Title, "Cast the First Stone") » Read Now
by Chester Himes. 363 pgs.

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A classic restored -- the complete and unexpurgated text of the first, most powerful, and most autobiographical novel of this great African-American writer.
In 1937 Chester Himes, newly released from a seven-year stretch in the Ohio State Penitentiary for grand larceny, finished his first novel...
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A classic restored -- the complete and unexpurgated text of the first, most powerful, and most autobiographical novel of this great African-American writer.
In 1937 Chester Himes, newly released from a seven-year stretch in the Ohio State Penitentiary for grand larceny, finished his first novel, Yesterday Will Make You Cry. By turns brutal and lyrical and never less than totally honest, it tells the autobiographical story of young Jimmy Monroe's passage through the prison system, which tests the limits of his sanity, his capacity for suffering, and his definition of love. Stunningly candid about racism, homosexuality, and prison corruption, the book would take sixteen years and four subsequent revisions before being published in much altered form as Cast the First Stone in 1952. Even bowdlerized, it was recognized as a sardonic masterpiece of debasement and transfiguration.
This edition presents for the first time the book precisely as Himes intended it to be read, with its raw honesty andstartling compassion entirely intact. It now stands definitively as one of the great novels of prison life and one of Himes's most enduring literary achievements.
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Modern Black American Fiction Writers ("Chester Himes, 1909-1984" begins on p. 64) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 167 pgs.

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The Blues Detective: A Study of African American Detective Fiction (Chap. 5 "City within a City: The Detective Fiction of Chester Himes") » Read Now
by Stephen F. Soitos. 260 pgs.

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Transgressing Race and Community in Chester Himes's If He Hollers Let Him Go, in African American Review » Read Now
by Lynn M. Itagaki. 15 pgs.

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Love Jones: A Black Male Feminist Critique of Chester Himes's If He Hollers Let Him Go, in African American Review » Read Now
by David Ikard. 11 pgs.

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African American Anti-Semitism and Himes's 'Lonely Crusade, in MELUS » Read Now
by Steven J. Rosen. 21 pgs.

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Doing Time in American Prisons: A Study of Modern Novels ("Chester Himes" begins on p. 51) » Read Now
by Dennis Massey. 248 pgs.

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This is a study of novels by Chester Himes, Malcolm Braly, and others on the experience of doing time in American prisons. The authors are all convicts or ex-convicts who were not professional writers before their incarceration. In fact, Massey notes, the confinement seems to have motivated them to...
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This is a study of novels by Chester Himes, Malcolm Braly, and others on the experience of doing time in American prisons. The authors are all convicts or ex-convicts who were not professional writers before their incarceration. In fact, Massey notes, the confinement seems to have motivated them to put their experiences into words. Most of the prisoners were incarcerated for armed robbery, one of the most common felonies in the United States. The relationship between that crime and the American Dream has social and political implications, but these writers are neither prisoners of conscience nor prisoners of war.
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Limited Options: Strategic Maneuverings in Hime's Harlem, in African American Review » Read Now
by Wendy W. Walters. 15 pgs.

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No Order from Chaos: The Absence of Chandler's Extra-Legal Space in the Detective Fiction of Chester Himes and Walter Mosley, in Studies in the Novel » Read Now
by Scott Bunyan. 14 pgs.

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Which Way Did He Go?The Private Eye in Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler Chester Himes, and Ross MacDonald » Read Now
by Edward Margolies. 97 pgs.

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