Born in a mighty bad land
Subtitle: the violent man in African American folklore and fiction
By: Jerry H. Bryant.
Series: Blacks in the diaspora
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism; Violence in literature; Literature and folklore -- United States; African Americans -- Intellectual life; African American men in literature; African Americans -- Folklore; Violence -- Folklore; Men in literature; Men -- Folklore
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The classic badman and the ballad; title: Postbellum violence and its causes : "displaced rage" in a preindustrial culture; title: Between the wars : the genteel novel, counterstereotypes, and initial probes; title: From the genteel to the primitive : the twenties and thirties; title: The ghetto bildungsroman : from the forties to the seventies; title: Toasts : tales of the "bad nigger"; title: Chester Himes : Harlem absurd; title: A "toast" novel : pimps, hoodlums, and hit men; title: Walter Mosley and the violent men of Watts; title: Rap : going commercial; title: The badman and the storyteller : John Edgar Wideman's homewood trilogy; title: Toni Morrison : Ulysses, badmen, and archetypes; title: abandoning violence; title: Appendix : Analysis of thirty prototype ballads.