If He Hollers Let Him Go: A Novel by Chester Himes

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Written in the 1940s, this novel fictionalizes the experience of being black in America at a specific time in the country's history - the early days of its involvement in World War II. The experience of being at war nationally is mirrored on a smaller scale in the struggle of the book's central character, Robert Jones, as he attempts to wage a personal war against racism. Other themes explored by the...

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Chester Himes Biographies (5)

Chester Bomar Himes

1,997 words, approx. 7 pages

His reputation rests largely on his detective novels, which in their own right rank with the best noir fiction, but Chester Himes (1909-1984) was hardly a man to be pigeonholed. In his lifetime he pub... Read more

Chester (Bomar) Himes

2,642 words, approx. 9 pages

Chester Himes is one of the curiosities of American literature, a fiercely independent black writer whose many faults have alienated both white and black critics, save for a few who have insisted that... Read more

Chester (Bomar) Himes

7,935 words, approx. 27 pages

Novelist, essayist, short-story writer, and journalist, Chester Himes made his mark as a satirist and as a writer of detective novels. In 1970 John A. Williams maintained that "Himes is perhaps the ... Read more

Chester (Bomar) Himes

12,174 words, approx. 41 pages

Chester Bomar Himes's career extended from the mid 1930s to the mid 1980s, a time of enormous social change and racial turmoil in the United States. His work is remarkable for the honesty, intensity, ... Read more

Chester (Bomar) Himes

5,816 words, approx. 20 pages

In 1957 Chester Himes was so down and out in Paris that he was ready to write almost anything to make a buck--even a detective novel. Himes was at that point a "serious" novelist who had never written... Read more

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