Born in a mighty bad land
Bryant, Jerry H., 1928-
Born in a mighty bad land the violent man in African American folklore and fiction / [electronic resource] : Jerry H. Bryant. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2003. - 237 p. - Blacks in the diaspora . - Blacks in the diaspora. .
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.
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.
PS374.V58 / B79 2003eb
813.009/355
Born in a mighty bad land the violent man in African American folklore and fiction / [electronic resource] : Jerry H. Bryant. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2003. - 237 p. - Blacks in the diaspora . - Blacks in the diaspora. .
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.
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.
PS374.V58 / B79 2003eb
813.009/355