The World Would Do Better to Ask Why is Frimbo Sherlock Holmes?: Investigating Liminality in Rudolph Fisher's The Conjure-Man Dies

Authors

Adrienne Gosselin, Cleveland State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Winter 1998

Publication Title

African American Review

Keywords

African Americans, African American culture, African American studies, Modernist art, Primitivism, Liminality, Folklore, Novels, Literary criticism, Black nationalism

Recommended Citation

Gosselin, Adrienne Johnson. “The World Would Do Better to Ask Why Is Frimbo Sherlock Holmes?: Investigating Liminality in Rudolph Fisher's The Conjure-Man Dies.” African American Review, vol. 32, no. 4, 1998, pp. 607–619. www.jstor.org/stable/2901240.

Original Published Citation

Gosselin, Adrienne Johnson. “The World Would Do Better to Ask Why Is Frimbo Sherlock Holmes?: Investigating Liminality in Rudolph Fisher's The Conjure-Man Dies.” African American Review, vol. 32, no. 4, 1998, pp. 607–619. www.jstor.org/stable/2901240.

DOI

www.jstor.org/stable/2901240

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Publisher's Statement

This article first appeared in African American Review, vol. 32, no. 4, 1998, pp. 607–619. www.jstor.org/stable/2901240.