Born in a mighty bad land the violent man in African American folklore and fiction / Jerry H. Bryant.

Author/creator Bryant, Jerry H., 1928-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press,
Description237 p. ; 25 cm.
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Subjects
American fiction--African American authors. --History and criticism.
Violence in literature.
Literature and folklore--United States.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African American men in literature.
African Americans--Folklore.
Violence--Folklore.
Men in literature.
Men--Folklore.

SeriesBlacks in the diaspora
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2002011578
ISBN0253342066 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0253215781 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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