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Born in a Mighty Bad Land : The Violent Man in African American Folklore and Fiction

By: JERRY H. BRYANT

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr: April 2003

Seller ID: 87830

ISBN: 0253215781

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

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 "gangsta" rap. "Born in a Mighty Bad Land" connects this figure with similar characters in African American fiction. Many writers--McKay and Hurston in the Harlem Renaissance; Wright, Baldwin, and Ellison in the '40s and '50s; Himes in the '50s and '60s--saw the "bad nigger" as an archetypal figure in the black imagination and psyche. "Blaxploitation" novels in the '...
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