As popular genre of novels predominantly written by African American and Latinx authors, street fiction is often characterized in terms of the sex, violence, and illicit activities present in its narratives set in low socioeconomic urban communities across the United States. Street fiction’s popularity has soared since the early 2000s, and several authors who formerly self-published their novels and sold them through grassroots channels now sign lucrative contracts with major publishers. The purpose of this study is to offer a recontextualized description of street fiction exploring its ideological, political and cultural connections to other spheres of influence including: the tradition of the American novel, African American literary history and theories, popular fictions, and hip hop. Using critical discourse analysis and cultural studies as combined methodologies, I offer a dialogic analysis of three themes present in four examples of the genre, namely: 1) ambivalence between “straight” lives and “street” lives, 2) the interplay between constructions of “self” and “other” in street fiction, and 3) the dynamics between the “real” and the “fantastic” elements in the novels. I offer a concluding analysis of how the literacy practices surrounding street fiction dovetail with key conversations in the field of English, including the definition of literature, the relationships among authors, readers and texts, the purpose of reading and writing fiction, and the notion of books as both cultural artifacts and commodities.

By taking an introspective look into my beliefs, perceptions, and life experiences this study will use an autoethnographical approach to examine the researcher’s evolution from street life, to prison life, to academic life. This study will examine the urban life experiences of the author, tracing a forty-six year span of Black male urban life to examine the potential value of America’s Urban youth. Critical pedagogy will be used as the theoretical framework for this narrative. This research is important because it will explore how Urban and African-centered literature was pivotal in inspiring the researcher to move from a criminal mentality to one of resilience, self-determination, and community uplift.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(人間・環境学) / 甲第21856号 / 人博第885号 / 新制||人||212(附属図書館) / 2018||人博||885(吉田南総合図書館) / 京都大学大学院人間・環境学研究科共生人間学専攻 / (主査)教授 水野 尚之, 教授 土屋 由香, 准教授 小島 基洋, 教授 西山 けい子 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Human and Environmental Studies / Kyoto University / DGAM

O presente trabalho se centra em uma nova leitura da geração literária de 45, no Uruguai. São estudados, principalmente, dois aspectos: primeiro, a análise dos elementos constitutivos do novo imaginário que a geração de 45 imputou à sociedade e, segundo, a identificação dos mecanismos de poder que a geração utilizou para alcançar um lugar de destaque dentro da sociedade de sua época. A tese que se propõe, ao contrário do que tradicionalmente afirmam os críticos literários é a de que a geração de 45, ao invés de romper totalmente com o imaginário anterior da sociedade uruguaia, é portadora de elementos que se originam em imaginários anteriores, elementos presentes na cultura uruguaia desde os primórdios de sua constituição.Trabalha-se, principalmente, o espaço ficcional urbano que a geração descortina em diferentes textos, por considerá-lo privilegiado para a constituição do novo imaginário. A abordagem se centra tanto na ficção - especialmente de J.C. Onetti, C. Martínez Moreno e Mario Benedetti - quanto em ensaios - C. Real de Azúa, E. Rodríguez Monegal e A. Rama / This work centres on a new reading of Uruguay\'s literary Generation of 1945. Two aspects are given special attention: the analisis of elements constituting the new imaginary that this generation would impose on society 2) the identification of power- acquiring mechanisms wielded by this generation to gain a dominant position within society at the time.The thesis put forward - as opposed to what literary critics have traditionally asserted-- is that instead of completely moving away from Uruguayan society\'s prior imaginary, the Generation of 1945 retains elements proceeding from preliminary imaginaries, which have been dragged forward within Uruguayan culture since the beginnings of its constitution. We work mainly upon the urban fictional space opened up by this generation in different texts, as it is considered privileged for the constitution of the new imaginary. Our approach centres both on fiction - especially J.C. Onetti, C. Martínez Moreno and Mario Benedetti - and essays - C. Real de Azúa, E. Rodríguez Monegal and A. Rama

O presente trabalho se centra em uma nova leitura da geração literária de 45, no Uruguai. São estudados, principalmente, dois aspectos: primeiro, a análise dos elementos constitutivos do novo imaginário que a geração de 45 imputou à sociedade e, segundo, a identificação dos mecanismos de poder que a geração utilizou para alcançar um lugar de destaque dentro da sociedade de sua época. A tese que se propõe, ao contrário do que tradicionalmente afirmam os críticos literários é a de que a geração de 45, ao invés de romper totalmente com o imaginário anterior da sociedade uruguaia, é portadora de elementos que se originam em imaginários anteriores, elementos presentes na cultura uruguaia desde os primórdios de sua constituição.Trabalha-se, principalmente, o espaço ficcional urbano que a geração descortina em diferentes textos, por considerá-lo privilegiado para a constituição do novo imaginário. A abordagem se centra tanto na ficção - especialmente de J.C. Onetti, C. Martínez Moreno e Mario Benedetti - quanto em ensaios - C. Real de Azúa, E. Rodríguez Monegal e A. Rama / This work centres on a new reading of Uruguay\'s literary Generation of 1945. Two aspects are given special attention: the analisis of elements constituting the new imaginary that this generation would impose on society 2) the identification of power- acquiring mechanisms wielded by this generation to gain a dominant position within society at the time.The thesis put forward - as opposed to what literary critics have traditionally asserted-- is that instead of completely moving away from Uruguayan society\'s prior imaginary, the Generation of 1945 retains elements proceeding from preliminary imaginaries, which have been dragged forward within Uruguayan culture since the beginnings of its constitution. We work mainly upon the urban fictional space opened up by this generation in different texts, as it is considered privileged for the constitution of the new imaginary. Our approach centres both on fiction - especially J.C. Onetti, C. Martínez Moreno and Mario Benedetti - and essays - C. Real de Azúa, E. Rodríguez Monegal and A. Rama

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Vers le début des années 80, on assiste, sur la scène littéraire française, à un renouveau romanesque que le Nouveau Roman, trop centré sur les jeux de langage, semblait avoir démodé. On assiste également à une résurgence du roman réaliste, social, musical, policier et d’aventures. C’est précisément cette problématique du retour, notamment celui du roman d’aventures, que cette thèse tente d’exposer et surtout d’interroger à travers l’étude de l'oeuvre très représentative d’Echenoz. En renouant avec le genre classique, notre auteur n’hésite pas à en modifier la configuration et les enjeux. La mise au jour de ceux-ci nous permet d’élaborer une poétique du récit d’aventures postmoderne. Telle est la finalité de cette étude : revisiter les lieux d’un genre traditionnel ressuscité pour en dégager les formes et les enjeux contemporains. Mais à cet objectif, s’en ajoute un autre de plus large envergure : parcourir via l’étude du genre, les tribulations de la fiction échenozienne qui n’hésite pas à bifurquer d’un genre à l’autre, à chavirer entre deux espace-temps et à se thématiser dans une écriture elle-même périlleuse, toujours prête à malmener son lecteur totalement démuni face à l’audace débridée de son auteur et aux déroutantes perturbations de la narration et de l’œuvre. / Since 1980, the literary scene in France has witnessed a revival of romance once made obsolete by the New Novel (Nouveau Roman). Realistic, social, musical, crime, spy and adventure fiction has thus sprung up again. The current study examines and questions the problematic of “return” especially the return of adventure fiction in the very representative work of Jean Echenoz. Thought reviving a classical genre, the author does not shy away from modifying and remodeling that genre’s configurations and issues. Thus, this survey elaborates a poetic of the postmodern fiction of adventures, revisiting a traditional genre to extract contemporary forms and issues, so to speak. But from a broader perspective, the study underscores the tribulations of Echenoz’s fiction, work which does not mind to collapse plots, oscillate from one genre to another or sway between two space-times, at the risk of presenting itself in a turbulent mode of writing confounding the reader - who fells helpless in the face of the unbridled audacity of the author and his narrative perturbations.

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