TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bryant,Jerry H.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Born in a mighty bad land: the violent man in African American folklore and fiction 
T2  - Blacks in the diaspora
AV  - PS374.V58 B79 2003eb
U1  - 813.009/355 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - American fiction
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Violence in literature
KW  - Literature and folklore
KW  - United States
KW  - African American men in literature
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Violence
KW  - Men in literature
KW  - Men
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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