Owens Turn the World Upside Down

Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-231-55767-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Owens, Imani D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Prologue
Part I. Writing the Crossroads
1. Georgia Dusk and Panama Gold: Jean Toomer, Eric Walrond, and the “Death” of Folk Culture
2. Compelling Insinuation and the Uses of Ethnography: Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Price-Mars, and the U.S. Occupation of Haiti
Part II. Performing the Archive
3. “Cuban Evening”: The Poetics of Translation in the Work of Eusebia Cosme, Nicolás Guillén, and Langston Hughes
4. Reinterpreting Folk Culture at the “End of the World”: Sylvia Wynter’s Dance and Radio Drama
Coda: Toward an Ontological Sovereignty
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Imani D. Owens is associate professor of English at Rutgers University.