>>Those factors seem to be the spur to increasing
wave of "street lit"
>>authors.
I don't think "street lit" is really a new phenomenon. Just
the other day I was reading the entries for Donald Goines and
"Iceberg Slim" in Lee Server's excellent ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PULP
FICTION WRITERS, and both those writers were active beginning
in the late sixties. You could probably throw Chester Himes
in there as well.
I suppose that you could argue that these books were the
equivalent of the paperback originals of the 1950s that
documented the experiences of the white working-class
world.
Graham
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