Language: The Unknown: An Initiation Into Linguistics (Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy) - Hardcover

Kristeva, Julia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231061064 ISBN 13: 9780231061063

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1989

Synopsis

Compiled by three leading experts in the psychological, sociological, and criminal justice fields, this volume addresses timely questions from an eclectic range of positions. The product of a landmark conference on gangs, Gangs and Society brings together the work of academics, activists, and community leaders to examine the many functions and faces of gangs today. Analyzing the spread of gangs from New York to Texas to the West Coast, the book covers such topics as the spirituality of gangs, the place of women in gang culture, and the effect on gangs of a variety of educational programs and services for at-risk youth. The final chapter examines the gang-photography phenomenon by looking at the functions and politics of different approaches to gang photography and features a photographic essay by Donna DeCesare, an award-winning journalist.

About this title

About the Author:

Julia Kristeva is professor of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII and author of many acclaimed works and novels, including The Severed Head: Capital Visions, This Incredible Need to Believe, Hatred and Forgiveness, and Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila, all published by Columbia. She is the recipient of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought and the Holberg International Memorial Prize.

Language Notes:

Text: English, French (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0231061064
• ISBN 13: 9780231061063
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 380