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Turn the World Upside Down - Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean (Hardcover)
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Turn the World Upside Down - Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean (Hardcover)
Series: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
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In the first half of the twentieth century, Black hemispheric
culture grappled with the legacies of colonialism, U.S. empire, and
Jim Crow. As writers and performers sought to convey the terror and
the beauty of Black life under oppressive conditions, they
increasingly turned to the labor, movement, speech, sound, and
ritual of everyday “folk.” Many critics have perceived these
representations of folk culture as efforts to reclaim an authentic
past. Imani D. Owens recasts Black creators’ relationship to folk
culture, emphasizing their formal and stylistic innovations and
experiments in self-invention that reach beyond the local to the
world. Turn the World Upside Down explores how Black writers and
performers reimagined folk forms through the lens of the
unruly—that which cannot be easily governed, disciplined, or
managed. Drawing on a transnational and multilingual archive—from
Harlem to Havana, from the Panama Canal Zone to
Port-au-Prince—Owens considers the short stories of Eric Walrond
and Jean Toomer; the ethnographies of Zora Neale Hurston and Jean
Price-Mars; the recited poetry of Langston Hughes, Nicolás
Guillén, and Eusebia Cosme; and the essays, dance work, and radio
plays of Sylvia Wynter. Owens shows how these figures depict folk
culture—and Blackness itself—as a site of disruption,
ambiguity, and flux. Their works reveal how Black people contribute
to the stirrings of modernity while being excluded from its
promises. Ultimately, these works do not seek to render folk
culture more knowable or worthy of assimilation, but instead
provide new forms of radical world-making.
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Imprint: |
Columbia University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
Authors: |
Imani D. Owens
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
280 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-231-20888-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-231-20888-X |
Barcode: |
9780231208888 |
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