Youth gangs in literature [electronic resource] / Claudia Durst Johnson.
Material type: TextSeries: Exploring social issues through literaturePublication details: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.Description: 230 pSubject(s):- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Characters -- Juvenile delinquents
- American fiction -- History and criticism
- Gangs in literature
- Juvenile delinquents -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism
- Young adult fiction, American -- History and criticism
- Literature and society -- United States
- Juvenile delinquency in literature
- Juvenile delinquents in literature
- Social problems in literature
- Youth in literature
- 810.9/3556 22
- PS374.G35 J64 2004
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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