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



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Autore: Bryant Jerry H. <1928-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Born in a mighty bad land [[electronic resource] ] : the violent man in African American folklore and fiction / / Jerry H. Bryant Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (251 p.)
Disciplina: 813.009/355
Soggetto topico: 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
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Born in a mighty bad land  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-07213-7
0-253-10122-0
0-253-10989-2
9786612072130
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784577503321
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