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In film, Afrofuturism is the incorporation of black people's history and culture in science fiction film and related genres. The Guardian ' s Ashley Clark said the term Afrofuturism has "an amorphous nature" but that Afrofuturist films are "united by one key theme: the centering of the international black experience in alternate and imagined realities, whether fiction or documentary; past or ...
Donald Goines (pseudonym: Al C. Clark; December 15, 1936 – October 21, 1974) was an African-American writer of urban fiction. [1] His novels were deeply influenced by the work of Iceberg Slim . Early life and family
Urban fiction, also known as street lit or street fiction, is a literary genre set in a city landscape; however, the genre is as much defined by the socio-economic realities and culture of its characters as the urban setting. The tone for urban fiction is usually dark, focusing on the underside of city living.
In 2008, Bryant teamed up with a fellow romance author to write the urban fiction Hoodwives series for Simon & Schuster/Touchstone. Writing as Meesha Mink and De'Nesha Diamond, their first collaboration, Desperate Hoodwives , was released in January 2008, followed by Shameless Hoodwives in August 2008, and the highly anticipated The Hood Life ...
Toy Styles (born 31 January), pen names T. Styles, Reign and Mikal Malone, is an American author, screenwriter and film producer of urban fiction. According to Styles her first novels, Black & Ugly and A Hustler's Son, were written in a week. [1] Black & Ugly reached number 3 on the Essence magazine bestseller list. [2]
Omar Tyree, author of such urban lit narratives as “Flyy Girl” and “The Last Street Novel," recently went to see the Oscar-nominated movie “American Fiction.” “I loved the emotions of ...
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Author Donald Goines acknowledged the strong influence of Beck's Pimp when he created his urban fiction set in a black milieu. Goines was also published by Bentley Morris of Holloway House. [5] Peter A. Muckley published Iceberg Slim: The Life as Art (2003), a critical study of the fiction of Iceberg Slim. [27]