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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817268103321

Autore

Bryant Jerry H. <1928->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2003

ISBN

1-282-07213-7

0-253-10122-0

0-253-10989-2

9786612072130

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

Blacks in the diaspora

Disciplina

813.009/355

Soggetti

American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism

Violence in literature

Literature and folklore - United States

African American men in literature

African Americans

Violence

Men in literature

Men

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.