Street lit : representing the urban landscape / edited by Keenan Norris ; foreword by Omar Tyree.

Table of Contents: “…Winston ; A conversation with David Bradley : on Philadelphia negroes, pseudosociology, 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 / Ana Lúcia Silva Souza and Jaqueline Lima Santos ; 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 Akil White ; Street literature : a contextualization, historiography and personal narrative / Celena Diana Bumpus ; Street literature and hip-hop's ties to slave narratives and the sex slave trade / Alexandria White ; like a woman / Debra Busman ; Hard men of the street: black masculinity and the city in Kenji Jasper's Dark and Seeking Salamanca Mitchell / Cherie Ann Turpin ; An analysis of Omar Tyree's Last street novel / Keenan Norris ; On street lit: Ethan Iverson interviews Gerald Early / Ethan Iverson ; Enigmas / Sterling Warner ; Colson Whitehead's Zone one : postapocalyptic zombies take over Manhattan in the age of nostalgia, despair, and consumption / Kimberly Fain ; A point west of Mount San Bernardino / Juan Delgado ; Stories we might as well tell : a conversation with Lynel Gardner / Keenan Norris.…”
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