03489nam 2200793 a 450 991081726810332120200520144314.01-282-07213-70-253-10122-00-253-10989-29786612072130(CKB)1000000000362424(EBL)159870(OCoLC)56891364(SSID)ssj0000113982(PQKBManifestationID)11133777(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113982(PQKBWorkID)10102066(PQKB)10249748(MiAaPQ)EBC159870(OCoLC)53012132(MdBmJHUP)muse16582(Au-PeEL)EBL159870(CaPaEBR)ebr10040057(CaONFJC)MIL207213(EXLCZ)99100000000036242420020725d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBorn in a mighty bad land the violent man in African American folklore and fiction /Jerry H. Bryant1st ed.Bloomington Indiana University Pressc20031 online resource (251 p.)Blacks in the diasporaDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-34206-6 0-253-21578-1 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.Blacks in the diaspora.American fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismViolence in literatureLiterature and folkloreUnited StatesAfrican American men in literatureAfrican AmericansFolkloreViolenceFolkloreMen in literatureMenFolkloreAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.Violence in literature.Literature and folkloreAfrican American men in literature.African AmericansViolenceMen in literature.Men813.009/355Bryant Jerry H.1928-1671655MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817268103321Born in a mighty bad land4034386UNINA