word on the street urban fiction for adults & teens jan elkins & stephanie bertin salt lake...
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Word on the Street
Urban Fiction for Adults & Teens
Jan Elkins & Stephanie Bertin
Salt Lake County Library System
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Urban Fiction
Ghetto Lit HipHo
p Lit
Street
LitGangsta Lit
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Settings and Themes
•Urban Settings•Characters of color
– Usually African American– Also Latino or other minority
groups
•Fast-paced•Focus on relationships•Survival on the streets
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Settings & Themes
•Hip-Hop culture– Rap– Street fashion– Brand name cars & clothes
•Violence– Crime– Gangs– Revenge
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Appeal Characteristics
•Language– Straightforward, casual– First-person– Slang– Curse words
•External Action– Between characters, not in their
heads– Impulsive characters, react not
reflect– Usually from the first page
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Appeal Characteristics
•Authenticity– Often from authors own
experience•Drugs, Sex & Violence
– Treated in matter of fact manner– Part of life on the streets– Can be explicit/graphic
•Pragmatic– Survival – no absolute good and
evil– Drugs, sex & violence are a means
to an end– Often cautionary – street life is not
for the long-term, leads to death or prison
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Street Lit in the Library
Prepare for ChallengesPossible Reasons for Challenges:
Controversial content & themes
Literary quality
Negative portrayal of African Americans and minorities
○Review Library Collection Development Policy
○Be prepared to back up selections with book reviews or recommendations
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Urban Fiction www.streetliterature.com
www.streetfiction.org
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Urban Fiction for TEENS
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Butcher & HintonButcher & Hinton
Certain controversial elements are expected by the YA reader; “in fact, the genre would be failing in its mission if some novels did not mirror the [reality] many young people experience. ” Professors Katherine Bucher and Kaavonia Hinton, authors of the textbook Young Adult Literature: Exploration, Evaluation, and Appreciation.
“Well-written realistic fiction novels do not dictate specific moral and ethical beliefs. Rather, they challenge readers to learn the importance of moral and ethical behavior by drawing their own conclusions after they consider the events and facts from their own personal perspectives using their own moral and ethical judgments.” Butcher and Hinton
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Urban Fiction for Teens
Street Lit
vs.
Urban Stories
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Walter Dean Myers
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Bluford High
The Bully
byPaul
Langan
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Tyrell
byCoe Booth
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Jumped
byRita Williams-
Garcia
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Messed Up
byJanet Nichols
Lynch
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The First Part Last
byAngela Johnson
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A Girl Like Me
by Ni-Ni Simone
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Drama High Series
by L. Divine
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Alan Lawrence Sitomer
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The Brothers Torres
by Coert Voorhees
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Urban Non-Fiction for Teens
The Rose That Grew From Concrete
byTupac Shakur
My Bloody Life: The Making of a
Latin King
by Reymundo Sanchez
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Questions?