The Investigation of a Tangle Case in Chester Himes’s Cotton Comes to Harlem
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
The seventh novel in Himes’s detective series, Cotton Comes to Harlem, is generally considered the best of the set, ranking with the works of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Written in less than two weeks, while he was “living in a little crummy hotel in Paris” under very strained emotional and economic circumstances, the novel, when translated and published in Paris in 1958, was awarded a French literary prize, the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. This description of Harlem life brings us closer to understanding why jazz is so significant to the Coffin Ed and Grave Digger, and their inability to understand what it says is perhaps indicative of why they never fully comprehend the world they patrol.
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Dr. V. Gnanaprakasam, B. Vijayalakshmi
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