A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his story: from defending his mother against the evil men she brought into their lives to becoming a giant of the streets. The ultimate anti-hero, Iceberg Slim, takes you into the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, sounds, fears and petty triumphs of his world. Their refusal to compromise, coupled with their reflection of society's underworld and underbelly, rapidly won him a major following. Iceberg Slim's first three novels ( Pimp, Trick Baby, and Mama Black Widow) offered some of the rawest and bleakest visions of urban America ever put to paper. Blue-eyed, light-haired and white-skinned, White Folks is the most incredible con man the ghetto ever spawned, a hustler in the jungle of Southside Chicago where only the sharpest survive. Trick Baby charts the rise of White Folks, a white Negro who uses his colour as a trump card in the tough game of the Con. New York: Perennial, 1993.Please note that the following individual books as per original ISBN supplied individually by publisher and as per cover image in this listing shall be dispatched collectively: Roscoe Orman, Diana Sands, and Thalmus Rasulala. Ron O’Neal, Carl Lee, and Sheila Frazier. Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Exploration of Interracial Literature. From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom. Metaphors of Self: The Meaning of Autobiography. The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness. Jackson, MS: UP of Mississippi, 1991: xi–xviii. “Introduction.” Black Exodus: The Great Migration from the American South. The Black Underclass: Poverty, Unemployment and Entrapment of Ghetto Youth.
The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2003.Įllison, Ralph. “Born in a Mighty Bad Land”: The Violent Man in African American Folklore and Fiction. Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1969.īryant, Jerry H. Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1967.īeck, Robert.
New York: Dell-Random House, 2000.īeck, Robert. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.īaldwin, James. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. By doing so, Pimp became the ur-text to an emergent school of African American literature, sometimes relegated to “popular” status, which delineated the black community’s criminality and its underworld, paving the way for writers Donald Goines, Joe Nazel, and later Bishop Don Magic Juan.
The work also became a blueprint for success in the black underworld. Its publication would be a watershed moment in African American literature (popular and otherwise), because it was one of few novels to address the contemporary problem of the urban, impoverished environment from the perspective of the criminal. Iceberg Slim’s autobiographical novel offered readers a never-before-seen account of the sex trade, and an unforgettable look at the mores of Chicago’s street life during the 1940s, 50s, and. The story of Iceberg Slim’s evolution from a young boy to the most respected and reviled pimp in America intrigued and inspired. Before the explosion of black cinema’s Blaxploitation era of Shaft (1971), Super Fly (1972), and Willie Dynamite (1974), Robert Beck, writing under the pseudonym Iceberg Slim, published Pimp, the Story of My Life (1967) to celebrate and to lament his twenty-four years as a panderer of female flesh.
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