Youth gangs in literature
By: Claudia Durst Johnson.
Series: Exploring social issues through literature
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899- -- 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Outlaw gangs in an outlaw society : Borges' "The dread redeemer Lazarus Morell" and Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; title: The Irish immigrant : Asbury's Gangs of New York; title: The draft riots : Baker's Paradise Alley; title: Borges' "Monk Eastman, purveyor of iniquities"; title: A heritage of guns : McMurtry's Anything for Billy; title: The 1920s in Chicago : Farrell's Studs Lonigan; title: Jewish gangs in Brownsville, 1944/45 : Shulman's The Amboy Dukes; title: 1940s in Harlem : Wright's Rite of passage; title: Nazis and gangs : Golding's The lord of the flies; title: A girl gang in the 1950s : Oates' Foxfire; title: The 1960s : S.E. Hinton's The outsiders; title: Vietnam and civil rights : Conroy's The lords of discipline; title: Prep schools and Watergate : The chocolate war; title: Family disintegration in the 1980's : Myers' Scorpions; title: 1960s Los Angeles : Bonham's Durango Street; title: South Central Los Angeles : Scott's Monster; title: Barrio gangs of the 60s and 70s : Rodriguez' Always running; title: Filipino Americans : Ascalon's American son; title: Vietnamese gangs and skinheads : Garland's Shadow of the dragon; title: Chinese gangs : Mahoney's The two Chinatowns.