African American Street Lit’: old, new, or better (?) tricks?
Emerging in the mid-1990s, Street lit’, or hip-hop literature undeniably contributed to the boom in African American fiction of the late 20th century. The authors of the genre, many of whom are former gang members or convicts, followed in the steps of the best-selling pulp writers of the 1970s Donal...
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| Language: | English |
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2014-02-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/6456 |