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1 online resource (237 pages) |
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Blacks in the diaspora |
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Blacks in the diaspora.
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| 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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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism
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Violence in literature.
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Literature and folklore -- United States
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African American men in literature.
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African Americans -- Folklore.
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Violence -- Folklore.
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Men in literature.
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Men -- Folklore
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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African American men in literature
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African Americans
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American fiction -- African American authors
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Literature and folklore
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Men
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Men in literature
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Violence
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Violence in literature
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Folklore
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0253109892 |
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9780253109897 |
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0253101220 |
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9780253101228 |
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1282072137 |
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9781282072138 |
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9786612072130 |
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661207213X |
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