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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. <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

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Josephine 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.

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