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Born in a mighty bad land the violent man in African American folklore and fiction
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Born in a mighty bad land [electronic resource] : the violent man in African American folklore and fiction / Jerry H. Bryant.
ISBN
0253342066 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0253215781 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2003.
Physical Description
237 p. ; 25 cm.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2003. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 07, 2005
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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