/lit/ - Literature

>>18219409
>Can YA fiction be considered a serious literature?
Well, African American literary fiction in the 21st century is 99% period pieces, mostly about slavery. Angie Thomas is a YA writer and she's literally the only person writing fiction about BLM. Yes yes we're not allowed to say positive things about these things, but it's very possible that Angie Thomas could be remembered as the writer that captured a moment in history.

But I would unironically propose The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian as a contender for literary YA.

Why do all the literary African-American writers do magical realism/alternate history stories about slavery? Books about contemporary race issues have been quarantined to the YA genre. Is it because the literary authors are all boomers that can't relate to the current times?

Is this worth reading, even ironically?