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1 online resource (237 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Blacks in the diaspora
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Blacks in the diaspora.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 connects this figure with similar characters in African American fiction. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- African American authors. |
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Violence in literature.
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Violence in literature. |
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Literature and folklore -- United States.
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Literature and folklore. |
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United States. |
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African American men in literature.
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African American men in literature. |
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African Americans -- Folklore.
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African Americans -- Folklore. |
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Violence -- Folklore.
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Violence -- Folklore. |
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Men in literature.
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Men in literature. |
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Men -- Folklore.
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Men -- Folklore. |
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Men. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Folklore.
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Men. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bryant, Jerry H., 1928- Born in a mighty bad land. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2003 0253342066 0253215781 (DLC) 2002011578 (OCoLC)50279925 |
| ISBN |
0253109892 (electronic book) |
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9780253109897 (electronic book) |
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0253101220 |
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9780253101228 |
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0253342066 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0253215781 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780253342065 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780253215789 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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