Born in a mighty bad land : the violent man in African American folklore and fiction / Jerry H. Bryant.
Material type: TextSeries: Blacks in the diasporaPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2003.Description: 1 online resource (237 pages)Content type:- text
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- American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- Violence in literature
- Literature and folklore -- United States
- African American men in literature
- African Americans -- Folklore
- Violence -- Folklore
- Men in literature
- Men -- Folklore
- Roman américain -- Auteurs noirs américains -- Histoire et critique
- Violence dans la littérature
- Littérature et folklore -- États-Unis
- Hommes noirs américains dans la littérature
- Noirs américains -- Folklore
- Hommes dans la littérature
- Hommes -- Folklore
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- African American men in literature
- African Americans
- American fiction -- African American authors
- Literature and folklore
- Men
- Men in literature
- Violence
- Violence in literature
- United States
- 813.009/355 22
- PS374.V58 B79 2003eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The classic badman and the ballad -- Postbellum violence and its causes : "displaced rage" in a preindustrial culture -- Between the wars : the genteel novel, counterstereotypes, and initial probes -- From the genteel to the primitive : the twenties and thirties -- The ghetto bildungsroman : from the forties to the seventies -- Toasts : tales of the "bad nigger" -- Chester Himes : Harlem absurd -- A "toast" novel : pimps, hoodlums, and hit men -- Walter Mosley and the violent men of Watts -- Rap : going commercial -- The badman and the storyteller : John Edgar Wideman's homewood trilogy -- Toni Morrison : Ulysses, badmen, and archetypes--abandoning violence -- Appendix : Analysis of thirty prototype ballads.
The figure of the violent man in the African American imagination has a long history. He can be found in 19th-century bad man ballads like 'Stagolee' and 'John Hardy, ' as well as in the black convict recitations that influenced 'gansta' rap. Born in a Mighty Bad Land connects this figure with similar characters in African American fiction.
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