Clicas: Gender, Sexuality, and Struggle in Latina/O/X Gang Literature and Film

by Frank Garcia

How Latina/o/x gang literature and film represent women and gay gang members' challenges to gendered, sexual, racial, and class oppression.

Clicas examines Latina/o/x literature and film by and/or about gay and women gang members. Through close readings of literature and film, Frank Garc a reimagines the typical narratives describing gang membership and culture, amplifying and complicating critical gang studies in the social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477329439
• ISBN13: 9781477329436
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 256 Pages