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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bryant, Jerry H., 1928-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2003.
Series:	Blacks in the diaspora.
Subjects:	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. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. African American men in literature African Americans American fiction > African American authors Literature and folklore Men Men in literature Violence Violence in literature United States Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Folklore
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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.

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

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