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

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Superior document:Blacks in the diaspora
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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
Series:Blacks in the diaspora.
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Physical Description:237 p.
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300 |a 237 p. 
490 1 |a Blacks in the diaspora 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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