The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Metcalf, Josephine, 1975-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Gangs in literature.
Gangs.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
TRUE CRIME > Organized Crime.
Gangs > États-Unis.
Gangs > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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