Soul fiction
Soul Fiction is a label for novels by Afro-American authors from the 1950 / 60s. Soul is based on the originally Afro-American music genre of the same name.
As a book series is by Samuel Blumenfeld since the late 1990s in the French Éditions de l'Olivier , the collection Soul fiction published. Following on from this, the book series Soul Fiction will be published by Bremer Verlag Atlantik in Germany .
The authors of the 1950s hitherto unknown in Europe include Shay Youngblood with the novel Big Mama Stories , Roloand S. Jefferson , The School on 103rd Street , Charles Perry Portrait of a Drowning Man and Herbert Simmons with the novels Corner Boy and Tanz auf raw Eggs .
These novels depict specific, in part autobiographical life situations, music, love and resistance to racism, repression and social exclusion from the African-American part of US society.