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Publisher
Black Classic Pr
Publication date
September 13, 2011
Pages
218
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781580730464
ISBN-10
1580730469
Dimensions
0.50 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
0.75 lbs.
Original list price
$24.95
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Word Hustle is the first scholarly treatment of fiction writer Donald Goines, and thereby the first serious consideration of what has been termed Âstreet literature,â Âghetto literature,â Âstreet fiction,â or Âurban fiction.â By examining Goines, one of street literature's most prolific founders, this collection seeks to begin a legitimate study of the genre and its authors. In illuminating the layers of Goinesâs novels, the contributors engage topics such as Black Power politics, revolutionary violence, domesticity and fatherhood, revisions of the mulatto trope, rape and racialized sexuality, and the prison industrial complex.
The first two essays explore the political and popular importance of Goinesâs Kenyatta Series, written under the pseudonym of Al C. Clark. With this four book series, Goines produced a protagonist who would become emblematic of Black Power, street life, and tropes of Blaxploitation masculinity. Candice Love Jacksonâs ÂThe Paradox of Empowerment: Colonialism, Community, and Criminality in the Donald Goinesâs Kenyatta Seriesâ draws from the ideologies concerning violence and self-defense from the Black Panther Party as well as the ÂMau Mauâ uprising in continental and Pan-Africanist discourses. Jackson offers a reading of Goinesâs works as specifically invested in highlighting the importance, failures and paradoxes of Black leadership regarding poor Black people.
In the second essay on the Kenyatta series, ÂRevolutionary Hustler: Liberatory Violence in Donald Goinesâs Kenyatta Series,â Terrence Tucker studies the novels in this series to establish thematic precedents and literary considerations for the genre of street literature as it existed during the 1970s and for understanding the evolution of the genre as it exists today.
Greg Thomasâs ÂGeorge Jackson  Ambushing  in Swamp Man: Detecting Soledad Brother and Blood in My Eye in Donald Goinesâ considers the only non-urban novel Goines wrote, Swamp Man. In a move that understands that Black Power was not simply an ÂEast Coastâ or ÂWest Coastâ phenomenon, Thomas reveals how Goines transplanted Black Power ideologies into his southern protagonist and the novelâs themes about racial and sexual violence.
Dennis Chesterâs ÂBy Certain Codes: African American Masculinity in Donald Goines Daddy Coolâ uncovers the layers of Goinesâs writing concerned with gender and sexuality. He examines representational conflicts between Black masculinity within underclass communities and normative middle class representations.
The fifth essay by L. H. Stallings served as the impetus for this collection. In ÂIâm Goinâ Pimp Whores,â Stallings offers a reading of Whoreson as a neo-slave narrative situated in the urban landscape. She forces readers to reconsider questions of class in popular culture and literary analysis.
Cameron Leader-Piconeâs essay, ÂDigginâ the Scene with a Gangster Lean: Race as an Institutional Structure in Iceberg Slim and Donald Goines,â makes a connection between Goines and his writing mentor, Robert Beck a.k.a. Iceberg Slim. Piconeâs discussion of the tragic mulatto trope in both authorsâ works showcases a variation in the trope representation that stem from cultural manifestations of the figure in a different environment (underclass or institutional).
Phyllis Lynne Burnsâs ÂÂIâll Be Thereâ: The Love and Defense Narrative of Black Girl Lostâ demonstrates that even in the midst of presenting morally ambiguous characters, anger and vengeance, Goines also considers love. Burnsâs work observes how Goines challenges representations of the ghetto and the idea that love cannot and does not exist in its oppressed communities.
Next, Andrew Sargentâs ÂRepresenting Prison Rape: Race, Masculinity, and Incarceration in Donald Goinesâs White Manâs Justice, Black Manâs Griefâ confirms the vital utility of Goines for dissecting and interrupting a number of still very pressing discourses of oppression and repression
The last essay, Quincy Norwoodâs ÂBeneath the Law: Donald Goines and Americaâs Sliding Scale of Criminalityâ looks at Goinesâs prison novel, White Manâs Justice, Black Manâs Grief. Norwood pinpoints elements within the novel that showcase why it is taught in universities across the United States and how the novel provides a voice for prisoners as a group or social class.
Taking the street as its model, Word Hustle is an appraisal of Goinesâs legacy as well as an examination of a tradition and a model of writing. More than a collection of essays, it is a study whose contributors seek to make room for new models for studying Black literature and culture.
The first two essays explore the political and popular importance of Goinesâs Kenyatta Series, written under the pseudonym of Al C. Clark. With this four book series, Goines produced a protagonist who would become emblematic of Black Power, street life, and tropes of Blaxploitation masculinity. Candice Love Jacksonâs ÂThe Paradox of Empowerment: Colonialism, Community, and Criminality in the Donald Goinesâs Kenyatta Seriesâ draws from the ideologies concerning violence and self-defense from the Black Panther Party as well as the ÂMau Mauâ uprising in continental and Pan-Africanist discourses. Jackson offers a reading of Goinesâs works as specifically invested in highlighting the importance, failures and paradoxes of Black leadership regarding poor Black people.
In the second essay on the Kenyatta series, ÂRevolutionary Hustler: Liberatory Violence in Donald Goinesâs Kenyatta Series,â Terrence Tucker studies the novels in this series to establish thematic precedents and literary considerations for the genre of street literature as it existed during the 1970s and for understanding the evolution of the genre as it exists today.
Greg Thomasâs ÂGeorge Jackson  Ambushing  in Swamp Man: Detecting Soledad Brother and Blood in My Eye in Donald Goinesâ considers the only non-urban novel Goines wrote, Swamp Man. In a move that understands that Black Power was not simply an ÂEast Coastâ or ÂWest Coastâ phenomenon, Thomas reveals how Goines transplanted Black Power ideologies into his southern protagonist and the novelâs themes about racial and sexual violence.
Dennis Chesterâs ÂBy Certain Codes: African American Masculinity in Donald Goines Daddy Coolâ uncovers the layers of Goinesâs writing concerned with gender and sexuality. He examines representational conflicts between Black masculinity within underclass communities and normative middle class representations.
The fifth essay by L. H. Stallings served as the impetus for this collection. In ÂIâm Goinâ Pimp Whores,â Stallings offers a reading of Whoreson as a neo-slave narrative situated in the urban landscape. She forces readers to reconsider questions of class in popular culture and literary analysis.
Cameron Leader-Piconeâs essay, ÂDigginâ the Scene with a Gangster Lean: Race as an Institutional Structure in Iceberg Slim and Donald Goines,â makes a connection between Goines and his writing mentor, Robert Beck a.k.a. Iceberg Slim. Piconeâs discussion of the tragic mulatto trope in both authorsâ works showcases a variation in the trope representation that stem from cultural manifestations of the figure in a different environment (underclass or institutional).
Phyllis Lynne Burnsâs ÂÂIâll Be Thereâ: The Love and Defense Narrative of Black Girl Lostâ demonstrates that even in the midst of presenting morally ambiguous characters, anger and vengeance, Goines also considers love. Burnsâs work observes how Goines challenges representations of the ghetto and the idea that love cannot and does not exist in its oppressed communities.
Next, Andrew Sargentâs ÂRepresenting Prison Rape: Race, Masculinity, and Incarceration in Donald Goinesâs White Manâs Justice, Black Manâs Griefâ confirms the vital utility of Goines for dissecting and interrupting a number of still very pressing discourses of oppression and repression
The last essay, Quincy Norwoodâs ÂBeneath the Law: Donald Goines and Americaâs Sliding Scale of Criminalityâ looks at Goinesâs prison novel, White Manâs Justice, Black Manâs Grief. Norwood pinpoints elements within the novel that showcase why it is taught in universities across the United States and how the novel provides a voice for prisoners as a group or social class.
Taking the street as its model, Word Hustle is an appraisal of Goinesâs legacy as well as an examination of a tradition and a model of writing. More than a collection of essays, it is a study whose contributors seek to make room for new models for studying Black literature and culture.
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About: Word Hustle is the first scholarly treatment of fiction writer Donald Goines, and thereby the first serious consideration of what has been termed Âstreet literature,â Âghetto literature,â Âstreet fiction,â or Âurban fiction.
About: Word Hustle is the first scholarly treatment of fiction writer Donald Goines, and thereby the first serious consideration of what has been termed Âstreet literature,â Âghetto literature,â Âstreet fiction,â or Âurban fiction.
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