| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
|
| Title/Author: |
Born in a mighty bad land/ Jerry H. Bryant. |
| Reminder of title: |
the violent man in African American folklore and fiction / |
| Author: |
Bryant, Jerry H., |
| Published: |
Bloomington :Indiana University Press, : c2003., |
| Description: |
237 p. |
| Series: |
Blacks in the diaspora |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
African American men in literature. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=92043An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0253109892 (electronic bk.) |