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The culture and politics of contemporary street gang memoirs / Josephine Metcalf.
Van Pelt Library HV6439.U5 M48 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Metcalf, Josephine, 1975-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gangs--United States.
- Gangs.
- United States.
- Gangs in literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2012]
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Books making a killing : an introduction
- From rage to rap and prison to print : social, cultural, and commercial contexts of emergence
- Homeboys between hard covers : scholarly approaches to the study of gang memoirs
- Killer books: the representations and politics of violence in gang memoirs
- Brothers who could kill with words : language, literacy, and the quest for education in gang memoirs
- Murderer, monster, novelist, or Nobel nominee? : press reception and media constructions
- Quick reads for reluctant readers : consuming gang memoirs
- Conclusions: still running
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781617032813
- 1617032816
- 9781617032820
- 1617032824
- OCLC:
- 759909831
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