Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean (Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future) free ebook download.

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Author(s):	Imani D. Owens

Date:	2024	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0231208898
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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 unrulythat which cannot be easily governed, disciplined, or managed. Drawing on a transnational and multilingual archivefrom Harlem to Havana, from the Panama Canal Zone to Port-au-PrinceOwens 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, Nicols Guilln, and Eusebia Cosme  and the essays, dance work, and radio plays of Sylvia Wynter. Owens shows how these figures depict folk cultureand Blackness itselfas 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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