The culture and politics of contemporary street gang memoirs [electronic resource] / Josephine Metcalf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metcalf, Josephine, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gangs--United States.

Gangs.

Gangs in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The publication of Sanyika Shakur's Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member in 1993 generated a huge amount of excitement in literary circles--New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani deemed it a ""shocking and galvanic book""--and set off a new publishing trend of gang memoirs in the 1990's. The memoirs showcased tales of violent confrontation and territorial belonging but also offered many of the first journalistic and autobiographical accounts of the much-mythologized gang subculture. In The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs, Josephine Metcalf focuses

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-280-78190-4

9786613692290

1-61703-282-4

OCLC:

761196095