new scholarship
Still trying to figure out the appeal of “street lit” for today’s teens? Then head over to librarian Megan Honig’s blog for her month-long celebration of her new book, Urban Grit: A Guide to Street Lit, to be published December 30th by Libraries Unlimited. Megan answers your questions and hosts other “street lit” scholars, including Vanessa Irvin Morris whose own book on the subject will be out in 2011.
When I was in graduate school, I came home one day and found an ecstatic message on my answering machine; it was the professor of my Harlem Renaissance class, informing me that my paper was brilliant and had to be sent out for immediate publication. He helped me to revise it, and we sent it out with great expectations…only to have it slammed by a prominent African American literature journal. Fifteen years later, my essay is being published as a chapter in Imagining the Black Female Body, an anthology edited by Dr. Carol E. Henderson. When it comes to publishing, you just gotta keep hope alive…
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