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Born in a mighty bad land

by Bryant, Jerry H.,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Blacks in the diaspora Published by : Indiana University Press, (Bloomington :) Physical details: 237 p.
Subject(s): 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. | Electronic books.
Year: 2003
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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, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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