Born in a mighty bad land the violent man in African American folklore and fiction /

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Glavni autor: Bryant, Jerry H., 1928-
Autor kompanije: ebrary, Inc
Format: Elektronički e-knjiga
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2003.
Serija:Blacks in the diaspora.
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Sadržaj:
  • 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.