02526nam a2200445 a 4500 ebr10040057 CaPaEBR 20260707174514.0 m u cr cn||||||||| 020725s2003 inu sb s001 0 eng 2002011578 0253342066 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0253215781 (pbk. : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)297299084 PS374.V58 B79 2003eb 813.009/355 21 80937 66021 Bryant, Jerry H., 1928- 105178 Born in a mighty bad land [electronic resource] : the violent man in African American folklore and fiction / Jerry H. Bryant. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2003. 237 p. ; 25 cm. Blacks in the diaspora Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. American fiction African American authors History and criticism. 78527 Violence in literature. 30541 Literature and folklore United States. 88961 African American men in literature. 105179 African Americans Folklore. 41543 Violence Folklore. 105180 Men in literature. 91670 Men Folklore. 105181 Electronic books. local 190 ebrary, Inc. 191 Blacks in the diaspora. 90163 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10040057 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 80937 66021