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Born in a mighty bad land : the violent man in African American folklore and fiction
- Title
- Born in a mighty bad land : the violent man in African American folklore and fiction / Jerry H. Bryant.
- Author
- Bryant, Jerry H., 1928-
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2003.
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Details
- Description
- 237 p.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Blacks in the diaspora
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 03-944
- ISBN
- 0253342066 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 0253215781 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002011578
- OCLC
- 50279925
- Author
- Bryant, Jerry H., 1928-
- Title
- Born in a mighty bad land : the violent man in African American folklore and fiction / Jerry H. Bryant.
- Imprint
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2003.
- Series
- Blacks in the diaspora
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 03-944