Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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Street Lit Takes a Hit: Urban Lit: Tough Tales From the Streets
Street Lit Takes a Hit: An African American Author Raps the Genre, But Librarians Defend It
This 2006 article discusses how "urban fiction, street lit, ghetto fiction, gangsta lit, whatever you call it, this gritty genre of African American writing is enormously popular, both in bookstores and libraries," but is not popular with Nick Chiles, an education reporter and author, who believe these novels glamorize black criminals. From LibraryJournal.com.
URL: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6299839.html

Urban Lit: Tough Tales From the Streets
Briefly annotated bibliography of nonfiction and fiction works in the urban lit genre. Items include "an autobiography of a Puerto Rican teen fighting to stay alive in Harlem's mean streets," "an intimate, detailed look at gang life as a Crip from the '70s to the '90s," and novels about a hit-man seeking vengeance on a pimp, and Oakland, California, street gangs. Most titles are designed for young adult readers. From the Beaverton City Library (Oregon).
URL: http://www.beavertonlibrary.org/teens/urbanlit.html

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