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

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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 c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bryant, Jerry H., 1928-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2003.
Colección:Blacks in the diaspora.
Temas:
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
Violence in literature.
Literature and folklore > United States.
African American men in literature.
African Americans > Folklore.
Violence > Folklore.
Men in literature.
Men > Folklore.
Roman américain > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Violence dans la littérature.
Littérature et folklore > États-Unis.
Hommes noirs américains dans la littérature.
Noirs américains > Folklore.
Hommes dans la littérature.
Hommes > Folklore.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
African Americans.
American fiction > African American authors.
Literature and folklore.
Men.
Violence.
United States.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Folklore.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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