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The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs /
The publication of Sanyika Shakur's Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Membe r 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 m...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.