How do girls who are involved in gangs or impacted by them manage to go on to other ways of being and acting in the world? Transcending the gang-that is, being conscious of the gang"s effects on their lives years and even decades after leaving-is performed through storytelling. This book details how the practice of storytelling their experience gives such Latina girls and women a way to disinhabit the gang, to craft new identities that acknowledge their old identity, and to help others inhabiting new identities. By focusing on existing possibilities, its "Story Esperanza" shows how girls can have at their disposal the resources they need-economic, social, political, community, cultural, interactional and crucially, storytelling-on their journey to transcend gangs and inhabit more just social worlds Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Transcending Gangs: Latinas Story Their Experience (Lilliana Castaneda Rossmann)