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Overview"The publication of Sanyika Shakur's Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member 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 memoirs in the 1990s. The memoirs showcased tales of violent confrontation and territorial belonging but also offered many of the first journalistic and autobiographical accounts of the much-mythologized gang subculture.In The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs, Josephine Metcalf focuses on three of these memoirs--Shakur's Monster; Luis J. Rodriguez's Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.; and Stanley """"Tookie"""" Williams's Blue Rage, Black Redemption--as key representatives of the gang autobiography. Metcalf examines the conflict among violence, thrilling sensationalism, and the authorial desire to instruct and warn competing within these works. The narrative arcs of the memoirs themselves rest on the process of conversion from brutal, young gang bangers to nonviolent, enlightened citizens. Metcalf analyzes the emergence, production, marketing, and reception of gang memoirs. Through interviews with Rodriguez, Shakur, and Barbara Cottman Becnel (Williams's editor), Metcalf reveals both the writing and publishing processes. This book analyzes key narrative conventions, specifically how diction, dialogue, and narrative arcs shape the works. The book also explores how the memoirs are consumed. This interdisciplinary study--fusing literary criticism, sociology, ethnography, reader-response study, and editorial theory--brings scholarly attention to a popular, much-discussed, but understudied modern expression." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Josephine MetcalfPublisher: University Press of Mississippi Imprint: University Press of Mississippi Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.553kg ISBN: 9781617032813ISBN 10: 1617032816 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 30 July 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsMetcalf's case for the urgent relevance of this genre is persuasive and her dual focus on issues of violence and pedagogy itself instructive. The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs offers a comprehensive overview of the literary, social, political and commercial origins of this cultural form; close readings of seminal examples; and careful consideration of their reception both by the media and individual readers. An energetic engagement with history from below which goes to street-level without losing the necessary critical distance. <br><br><br><br>--Brian Jarvis, author of Cruel and Unusual: Punishment and U.S. Culture Metcalf's case for the urgent relevance of this genre is persuasive and her dual focus on issues of violence and pedagogy itself instructive. The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs offers a comprehensive overview of the literary, social, political and commercial origins of this cultural form; close readings of seminal examples; and careful consideration of their reception both by the media and individual readers. An energetic engagement with history from below which goes to street-level without losing the necessary critical distance. --Brian Jarvis, author of Cruel and Unusual: Punishment and U.S. Culture Metcalf's case for the urgent relevance of this genre is persuasive and her dual focus on issues of violence and pedagogy itself instructive. The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs offers a comprehensive overview of the literary, social, political and commercial origins of this cultural form; close readings of seminal examples; and careful consideration of their reception both by the media and individual readers. An energetic engagement with history from below which goes to street-level without losing the necessary critical distance. --Brian Jarvis, author of Cruel and Unusual: Punishment and U.S. Culture -Metcalf's case for the urgent relevance of this genre is persuasive and her dual focus on issues of violence and pedagogy itself instructive. The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs offers a comprehensive overview of the literary, social, political and commercial origins of this cultural form; close readings of seminal examples; and careful consideration of their reception both by the media and individual readers. An energetic engagement with history from below which goes to street-level without losing the necessary critical distance.---Brian Jarvis, author of Cruel and Unusual: Punishment and U.S. Culture �Metcalf�s case for the urgent relevance of this genre is persuasive and her dual focus on issues of violence and pedagogy itself instructive. The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs offers a comprehensive overview of the literary, social, political and commercial origins of this cultural form; close readings of seminal examples; and careful consideration of their reception both by the media and individual readers. An energetic engagement with history from below which goes to street-level without losing the necessary critical distance.� �Brian Jarvis, author of Cruel and Unusual: Punishment and U.S. Culture -Metcalf's case for the urgent relevance of this genre is persuasive and her dual focus on issues of violence and pedagogy itself instructive. The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs offers a comprehensive overview of the literary, social, political and commercial origins of this cultural form; close readings of seminal examples; and careful consideration of their reception both by the media and individual readers. An energetic engagement with history from below which goes to street-level without losing the necessary critical distance.- --Brian Jarvis, author of Cruel and Unusual: Punishment and U.S. Culture Metcalf's case for the urgent relevance of this genre is persuasive and her dual focus on issues of violence and pedagogy itself instructive. The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs offers a comprehensive overview of the literary, social, political and commercial origins of this cultural form; close readings of seminal examples; and careful consideration of their reception both by the media and individual readers. An energetic engagement with history from below which goes to street-level without losing the necessary critical distance. --Brian Jarvis, author of Cruel and Unusual: Punishment and U.S. Culture Metcalf s case for the urgent relevance of this genre is persuasive and her dual focus on issues of violence and pedagogy itself instructive. The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs offers a comprehensive overview of the literary, social, political and commercial origins of this cultural form; close readings of seminal examples; and careful consideration of their reception both by the media and individual readers. An energetic engagement with history from below which goes to street-level without losing the necessary critical distance. Brian Jarvis, author of Cruel and Unusual: Punishment and U.S. Culture Metcalf s case for the urgent relevance of this genre is persuasive and her dual focus on issues of violence and pedagogy itself instructive. The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs offers a comprehensive overview of the literary, social, political and commercial origins of this cultural form; close readings of seminal examples; and careful consideration of their reception both by the media and individual readers. An energetic engagement with history from below which goes to street-level without losing the necessary critical distance. Brian Jarvis, author of Cruel and Unusual: Punishment and U.S. Culture Metcalf's case for the urgent relevance of this genre is persuasive and her dual focus on issues of violence and pedagogy itself instructive. The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs offers a comprehensive overview of the literary, social, political and commercial origins of this cultural form; close readings of seminal examples; and careful consideration of their reception both by the media and individual readers. An energetic engagement with history from below which goes to street-level without losing the necessary critical distance. --Brian Jarvis, author of Cruel and Unusual: Punishment and U.S. Culture Author InformationJosephine Metcalf is a lecturer in American Studies at the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. Her work has appeared in the European Journal for American Studies; Journal of American Culture; and Crime, Media, Culture. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |