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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bryant, Jerry H., 1928-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2003]
Series:	Blacks in the diaspora.
Subjects:	American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism. Violence in literature. Literature and folklore > United States. African Americans > Intellectual life. African American men in literature. African Americans > Folklore. Violence > Folklore. Men in literature. Men > Folklore.

Table of 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.