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

The figure of the violent man in the African American imagination has a long history. He can be found in 19th-century bad man ballads like 'Stagolee' and 'John Hardy, ' as well as in the black convict recitations that influenced 'gansta' rap. Born in a Mighty Bad Land c...

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Основен автор: Bryant, Jerry H., 1928-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ℗♭2003.
Серия: Blacks in the diaspora.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Born in a mighty bad land.
Съдържание:
  • 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.