Youth gangs in literature / Claudia Durst Johnson.
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| Superior document: | Exploring social issues through literature |
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| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Exploring social issues through literature.
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| Physical Description: | 230 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Outlaw gangs in an outlaw society : Borges' "The dread redeemer Lazarus Morell" and Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The Irish immigrant : Asbury's Gangs of New York
- The draft riots : Baker's Paradise Alley
- Borges' "Monk Eastman, purveyor of iniquities"
- A heritage of guns : McMurtry's Anything for Billy
- The 1920s in Chicago : Farrell's Studs Lonigan
- Jewish gangs in Brownsville, 1944/45 : Shulman's The Amboy Dukes
- 1940s in Harlem : Wright's Rite of passage
- Nazis and gangs : Golding's The lord of the flies
- A girl gang in the 1950s : Oates' Foxfire
- The 1960s : S.E. Hinton's The outsiders
- Vietnam and civil rights : Conroy's The lords of discipline
- Prep schools and Watergate : The chocolate war
- Family disintegration in the 1980's : Myers' Scorpions
- 1960s Los Angeles : Bonham's Durango Street
- South Central Los Angeles : Scott's Monster
- Barrio gangs of the 60s and 70s : Rodriguez' Always running
- Filipino Americans : Ascalon's American son
- Vietnamese gangs and skinheads : Garland's Shadow of the dragon
- Chinese gangs : Mahoney's The two Chinatowns.