Critical Response to Chester Himes

CHARLES L.P. SILET is Professor of English at Iowa State University. He has written widely on crime and mystery fiction and his articles, reviews, and interviews have appeared in journals both in the United States and abroad. He was a Consulting Editor for The Armchair Detective and is presently a Consulting Editor for the new Strand Magazine. His most recent book is Talking Murder: 20 Interviews with Mystery and Crime Writers.

• 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