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...
Основен автор: | Bryant, Jerry H., 1928- |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
℗♭2003.
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Серия: |
Blacks in the diaspora.
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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.