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->
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| Titolo: |
Born in a mighty bad land [[electronic resource] ] : the violent man in African American folklore and fiction / / Jerry H. Bryant
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| Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| 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 |
| 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.: | 9910817268103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Blacks in the diaspora.