Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Harlem_Detective> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 35 of
35
with 100 items per page.
- Harlem_Detective abstract "The Harlem Detective series of novels by Chester Himes comprises nine hardboiled novels set in the 1950s and early 1960s: For Love of Imabelle, a.k.a. A Rage in Harlem The Crazy Kill The Real Cool Killers All Shot Up The Big Gold Dream The Heat's On Cotton Comes to Harlem Blind Man With A Pistol Plan B (unfinished)Their protagonists are two black NYPD detectives—Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson—whose names suggest the nature of their police methods and reputation. Jones and Johnson generally go easy with, and even tolerate, numbers operators, madames, whores, and gamblers; but they are extremely hostile to violent criminals, drug dealers, confidence tricksters and pimps. Himes says that they are tough, "but they never came down hard on anybody that was in the right".One reviewer states:Himes's two Harlem detectives are mythic heroes of sorts—indomitable forces of nature, their status as heavy-handed enforcers for the Man elevated to Harlem legends. So pervasive is the legend that their presence isn't needed to inspire awe or fear, mention of their name is enough. They are the law, the Man, the "mens", also a law onto themselves, using extralegal means to induce compliance. [1]The "extralegal means" frequently include physical brutality in the case of men suspected of violent crime, and psychological torture and intimidation with women who withhold information: Coffin Ed threatening to pistol-whip a woman "until no man will ever look at you again"; or Gravedigger stripping another woman naked, tying her up, and making a hairline incision across her neck with a razor, then forcing her to look at the blood in a mirror.Himes attempts to portray this brutality in such a way that the reader does not wholly lose sympathy with the detectives. For example, in the throat-cutting incident, the woman was a key witness in a case where a young girl was being held hostage and threatened with death by a street gang, and Himes says of Gravedigger's actions: "He knew what he had done was unforgivable, but he couldn't stand any more lies". Jones and Johnson get away with these methods because they manage to solve high-profile cases under great pressure and because the victims of their brutality always either get killed off by other criminals, or are found to be implicated in serious crimes, themselves.Notwithstanding the above, Gravedigger and Coffin Ed have deep and genuine sympathy for the innocent victims of crime. They frequently intervene to protect their black brothers and sisters from the random and truly pointless brutality of the white cops (as portrayed by Himes). Finally, the detectives seem sympathetic because they are under constant pressure to prove themselves, as the only black detectives in a precinct where the other cops are openly racist; and the flip side of their brutality is their willingness to put their own reputations and their own lives on the line whenever the interests of justice require it.There is abundant, and very effective, use of "black" (i.e., macabre) humor to lighten the mood of the stories, and they also contain many interesting sidelights touching on subjects as diverse as political corruption, jazz, soul food, and the sexual underside of Harlem life in that era.Three films have been made based on the characters of Coffin Ed and Gravedigger: Cotton Comes to Harlem, Come Back, Charleston Blue and A Rage in Harlem.".
- Harlem_Detective wikiPageExternalLink chester-himes-a-rage-in-america.html.
- Harlem_Detective wikiPageID "8145956".
- Harlem_Detective wikiPageRevisionID "596067862".
- Harlem_Detective hasPhotoCollection Harlem_Detective.
- Harlem_Detective subject Category:Crime_novel_series.
- Harlem_Detective subject Category:Detective_fiction.
- Harlem_Detective subject Category:Fictional_police_officers.
- Harlem_Detective subject Category:Harlem_in_fiction.
- Harlem_Detective subject Category:Novels_by_Chester_Himes.
- Harlem_Detective subject Category:Novels_set_in_New_York_City.
- Harlem_Detective type CausalAgent100007347.
- Harlem_Detective type Defender109614684.
- Harlem_Detective type FictionalPoliceOfficers.
- Harlem_Detective type Lawman110249459.
- Harlem_Detective type LivingThing100004258.
- Harlem_Detective type Object100002684.
- Harlem_Detective type Organism100004475.
- Harlem_Detective type Person100007846.
- Harlem_Detective type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Harlem_Detective type Policeman110448983.
- Harlem_Detective type Preserver110466918.
- Harlem_Detective type Whole100003553.
- Harlem_Detective type YagoLegalActor.
- Harlem_Detective type YagoLegalActorGeo.
- Harlem_Detective comment "The Harlem Detective series of novels by Chester Himes comprises nine hardboiled novels set in the 1950s and early 1960s: For Love of Imabelle, a.k.a. A Rage in Harlem The Crazy Kill The Real Cool Killers All Shot Up The Big Gold Dream The Heat's On Cotton Comes to Harlem Blind Man With A Pistol Plan B (unfinished)Their protagonists are two black NYPD detectives—Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson—whose names suggest the nature of their police methods and reputation.".
- Harlem_Detective label "Ed Cercueil et Fossoyeur Jones".
- Harlem_Detective label "Harlem Detective".
- Harlem_Detective sameAs Ed_Cercueil_et_Fossoyeur_Jones.
- Harlem_Detective sameAs m.026t8dp.
- Harlem_Detective sameAs Q3047158.
- Harlem_Detective sameAs Q3047158.
- Harlem_Detective sameAs Harlem_Detective.
- Harlem_Detective wasDerivedFrom Harlem_Detective?oldid=596067862.
- Harlem_Detective isPrimaryTopicOf Harlem_Detective.