Chester Himes: A Case of Rape
A Case of Rape
Buch
- Penguin Random House LLC, 10/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780593686744
- Bestellnummer: 11760422
- Umfang: 144 Seiten
- Gewicht: 168 g
- Maße: 203 x 132 mm
- Stärke: 10 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 8.10.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a brilliant, short novel about a tragic death and a wrongful convictionSpare and powerful, A Case of Rape chronicles a tragic miscarriage of justice. Mrs. Elizabeth Hancock Brissard, a white woman, has died in Paris under mysterious circumstances. She had overdosed on an aphrodisiac, and there was evidence she had been sexually assaulted. A French couple witnessed four black men attempting to push her out a window before she died. The trial that followed was summary, and its verdict convicting the four men of rape was practically a foregone conclusion. But was it true? A riveting mystery but also a mordant critique of racism and sexism, and featuring an introduction by Calvin C. Hernton, A Case of Rape is the fablelike story of doomed love and justice.
Biografie
Chester Himes (1909 - 1984) hat die Kriminalliteratur radikalisiert und literarisch endgültig emanzipiert, nachdem er aus den USA nach Frankreich emigriert war. Chester Himes
A Case of Rape
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