Born in a mighty bad land [electronic resource] : the violent man in African American folklore and fiction / Jerry H. Bryant.
By: Bryant, Jerry H.
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Series: Blacks in the diaspora: Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2003Description: 237 p. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism | Violence in literature![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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813.009/35203916 English romanticism and the Celtic world | 813.009/352042 Domestic allegories of political desire | 813.009/353 Wounded hearts | 813.009/355 Born in a mighty bad land | 813.009/355 Whitewashing America | 813.009/355 Deadly musings | 813.009/355 Reading rape |
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.