Youth gangs in literature by Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938- instant download

Youth gangs in literature by Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938- instant download

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