"Born in a Mighty Bad Land" : The Violent Man in African American Folklore and Fiction /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bryant, Jerry H., 1928-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Men > Folklore.
Men in literature.
Violence > Folklore.
African Americans > Folklore.
African American men in literature.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
Literature and folklore > United States.
Violence in literature.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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