Born in a mighty bad land the violent man in African American folklore and fiction /
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| Format: | Electronisk eBog |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
c2003.
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| Serier: | Blacks in the diaspora.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- 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.