American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street

Reference Type	Book
Year of Publication	2014
Author	Author: Paula Rabinowitz
Language	English
Number of Pages	390 pp.
Publisher	Princeton University Press
City	Princeton, NJ
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Region	United States
Demographics	LGBTQ Women African-Americans
Chronological Period	1900-1949 1950-1999
ISBN	9780691150604
Annotation	Contents: Pulp: biography of an American object Pulp as interface Richard Wright's savage holiday: True crime and 12 Million Black Voices Isak Dinesen gets drafted: pulp, the armed services editions, and GI reading Pulping Ann Petry: the case of Country Place Señor Borges wins! Ellery Queen's garden Slips of the tongue: Uncovering lesbian pulp Sci-unfi: Bombs, ovens, delinquents, and more Demotic Ulysses: Policing paperbacks in the courts and Congress CODA: The afterlife of pulp