Country bumpkins might assume that urban book publishers are located in cities rather than on lonely country roads. Their assumptions could be dangerously inaccurate. In reality urban book publishers are more likely to be publishing houses occupied in producing works of a special sort rather than simply being located in urban environments.
Works that fall into the genre tend to be set in cities and the less wealthy parts of cities. Typically works take the point of view of people who consider themselves to be disadvantaged by virtue of who they are and where they live.
A mark of this genre is that social conventions and niceties of conventional behavior are often flouted, perhaps deliberately as a gesture of defiance. Situations true to life feature largely illustrating the reality of life in some places. The tone of the texts to be dark and pessimistic, as is the quality of life that people seem to resent, as though someone else is responsible for it.
Urban book publishers could also be the title of a publishing house devoted to the improvement of communities. By publishing the works of urban fiction writers they might seek to educate and enhance the status of inner city residents. Many communities that live in social isolation and squalor have created their living conditions for themselves and only they can change them.
In some countries people who live in squalor, poverty and disorder are in the majority and in others they are minorities. In developed countries there may be companies and organizations that devote themselves to rejuvenating and trying to uplift squalid living conditions. A truth that may be difficult to swallow is that it is usually the community itself that is responsible for the ills that individuals face in downtrodden areas.
Many communities that are labeled 'disadvantaged' are happy to take all the help that they can get but very unhappy about implementing improvements that might entail changes to their free and easy lifestyle. In Africa there are strong oral traditions, and large discrepancies between these and the written word. Words and signs have little bearing on what people do and may often be torn down and used as firewood.
Urban book publishers can play useful role in communities that have a weak tradition of writing. By publishing texts that are relevant to people not used to reading or following written instructions they might work slowly to transform communities and cultures. A problem could be that as a community becomes more literate the very causes upon which it rests might vanish.
Works that fall into the genre tend to be set in cities and the less wealthy parts of cities. Typically works take the point of view of people who consider themselves to be disadvantaged by virtue of who they are and where they live.
A mark of this genre is that social conventions and niceties of conventional behavior are often flouted, perhaps deliberately as a gesture of defiance. Situations true to life feature largely illustrating the reality of life in some places. The tone of the texts to be dark and pessimistic, as is the quality of life that people seem to resent, as though someone else is responsible for it.
Urban book publishers could also be the title of a publishing house devoted to the improvement of communities. By publishing the works of urban fiction writers they might seek to educate and enhance the status of inner city residents. Many communities that live in social isolation and squalor have created their living conditions for themselves and only they can change them.
In some countries people who live in squalor, poverty and disorder are in the majority and in others they are minorities. In developed countries there may be companies and organizations that devote themselves to rejuvenating and trying to uplift squalid living conditions. A truth that may be difficult to swallow is that it is usually the community itself that is responsible for the ills that individuals face in downtrodden areas.
Many communities that are labeled 'disadvantaged' are happy to take all the help that they can get but very unhappy about implementing improvements that might entail changes to their free and easy lifestyle. In Africa there are strong oral traditions, and large discrepancies between these and the written word. Words and signs have little bearing on what people do and may often be torn down and used as firewood.
Urban book publishers can play useful role in communities that have a weak tradition of writing. By publishing texts that are relevant to people not used to reading or following written instructions they might work slowly to transform communities and cultures. A problem could be that as a community becomes more literate the very causes upon which it rests might vanish.
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Writers who want to be published may ask for help from urban book publishers. They can also connect to urban fiction writers who have already been published.
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