Beyond the invaluable historical work it performs, Black Pulp offers numerous
and exciting theoretical suggestions regarding the politics of reading, the
innovations of popular fiction and the huge gulf between the historical experience
of readers in a given period and the retrospective constructions of literary
history. It constitutes essential reading for whoever is interested in Black studies,
pulp fiction or the sociology of reading, probing the limits of these intersecting
fields and helping to recover the forgotten hinterlands that lie beyond them.