Urban Grit - A Guide to Street Lit (Hardcover)

Offering more than 400 street-lit titles, this guide helps readers' advisors and other librarians to better understand the genre and collect and recommend titles ranging from romance and coming-of-age stories to action stories and erotica. Street lit is also known to its enthusiastic readers as "urban fiction," "ghetto lit," "hip-hop lit," and "gangsta lit." No matter what it's called, it remains one of the most significant and increasingly popular forms of modern literature. This text provides a much-needed resource guide to this vibrant genre. In this title, more than 400 entries appear in eleven chapters, each focusing on a different subgenre of street lit. The author has organized titles by popular subgenres and themes, such as prison life and urban erotica, to help librarians more easily identify read-alikes. Urban Grit: A Guide to Street Lit also contains practical tips on integrating these books into an existing collection or library program and meeting challenges that may arise in the process.

General

Imprint:	Libraries Unlimited
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Genreflecting Advisory Series
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	December 2010
Authors:	Megan Honig
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Paper over boards
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-1-59158-857-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > General Promotions
LSN:	1-59158-857-X
Barcode:	9781591588573

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