03237cam a2200421 i 4500 isbn_9780810892620 CaSfIA 20251129221117.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 130729s2014 mdua ob 001 0 eng 2013025234 9780810892620 0810892626 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780810892637 (ebook) 0810892634 (ebook) (OCoLC)1409466129 DLC eng rda DLC YDX BTCTA YDXCP OCLCO ERASA IAD CDX CHVBK UKMGB NYP SHH CIA OCLCF OCLCO IQU CaSfIA pcc n-us--- PS228.C54 S88 2014 810.9/355 23 Street lit : representing the urban landscape / edited by Keenan Norris ; [foreword by Omar Tyree]. Lanham, Maryland : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2014. 1 online resource (xxix, 214 pages : illustrations) text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-203) and index. Introduction: "Street lit[erature] in America past and present" / Keenan Norris -- Street literature in America past and present: "What is African-American literature?" / Gerald Early ; Gang wars : the academy vs. the streets / Kemeshia Randle -- Early street lit, 1950s-1970s: Whose mean streets? : Donald Goines, Iceberg Slim, and the black noir aesthetic / Bonnie Rhee Andreyeyev ; (Re)writing the "bad nigger" hero in Robert Beck's Pimp / Dennis L. Winston ; A conversation with David Bradley : on Philadelphia negroes, pseudo-sociology, South Street, and the life narrative of Malcolm X / Keenan Norris -- Contemporary street lit, 1990s and 2000s: Saratoga Avenue / Arisa White ; The history, power and graffiti art of Brazilian hip-hop / Jaqueline Lima Santos and Ana Lucia Silva Souza ; gun(n) / Arisa White ; Comparing the available female roles and the social contexts of Sula and The coldest winter ever / Keenan Norris ; In their own words : street lit, code-meshing, and linguistic diversity / Nikia Chaney ; Crucial churches / Tristan Acker ; The art of storytellin' : hip hop music and its cousin, street lit / Khalid White ; Street literature : a contextualization, historiography and personal narrative / Gerald Early -- Enigmas / Sterling Warner ; Colson Whitehead's Zone one : post-apocalyptic zombies take over Manhattan in the age of nostalgia, despair, and consumption / Kimberly Fain ; The method, madness and marketing of street lit / Latoya Peterson ; A point west of Mount San Bernardino / Juan Delgado ; Stories we might as well tell : a conversation with Lynel Gardner / Keenan Norris. Cities and towns in literature. City and town life in literature. African Americans in literature. American literature 20th century History and criticism. American literature African American authors History and criticism. Street literature United States History and criticism. Norris, Keenan. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780810892620 Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27157881M Additional information and access via Open Library isbn_9780810892620 ark:/13960/s278mht57xr