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05094aam a2200613 i 4500 001 499DCCB82E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240619010048 008 221121s2023 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022049013 020 $a 0231208898 020 $a 9780231208895 020 $a 023120888X 020 $a 9780231208888 035 $a (OCoLC)1369147168 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d ERASA $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OSU $d AUM $d MUU $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS153.B53 $b O94 2023 082 00 $a 810.9/896 $2 23/eng/20230207 100 1 $a Owens, Imani D., $e author. 245 10 $a Turn the world upside down : $b empire and unruly forms of Black folk culture in the U.S. and Caribbean / $c Imani D. Owens. 246 3 $a Empire and unruly forms of Black folk culture in the United States and Caribbean 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xv, 258 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Black lives in the diaspora : past, present, future 520 $a "Black hemispheric writing in the first half of the twentieth century was forged by the intertwined legacies of colonialism, U.S. empire, and Jim Crow. As writers sought to transmit the terror and the beauty of Black life under oppressive conditions, they increasingly turned to representations of folk culture. Many critics and scholars have perceived these representations as an effort to reclaim an authentic folk heritage as the foundation for national literary movements. In Turn the World Upside Down, Imani Owens tells a different story showing how writers and performers crafted alternatives to the tropes of authenticity and developed a different set of theories and aesthetic forms and styles to understand the relationship between folk culture and the modern Black experience. Turning to a transnational and multilingual archive, Owens considers a wide range of writers, including Eric Walrond and Jean Toomer, the experimental ethnographies of Zora Neale Hurston and Jean Price Mars, the written and recited poetry of Langston Hughes, NicolaÌs GuilleÌn and Eusebia Cosme, and finally, the essays, dance work, and radio plays of Sylvia Wynter. She considers how these writers and performers depicted folk culture-and blackness itself-as a site of disruption, experimentation, ambiguity, and flux. In their attunement to Black labor, movement, speech, ritual, these figures show how "everyday folk" contributed to the stirrings of modernity while being excluded from its promises. At the same time, she argues that the aim of these works is not to render the folk more knowable or worthy of assimilation into predetermined models of citizenship or resistance but rather to suggest alternatives"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-244) and index. 505 0 $a Writing the crossroads. Georgia dusk and Panama gold : Jean Toomer, Eric Walrond, and the "death" of folk culture -- Compelling insinuation and the uses of ethnography : Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Price-Mars, and the U.S. occupation of Haiti -- Performing the archive. "Cuban evening" : embodied poetics of translation in the work of Eusebia Cosme, NicolaÌs GuilleÌn, and Langston Hughes -- Reinterpreting folk culture at "end of the world" : Sylvia Wynter's dance and radio drama -- Coda. Toward an ontological sovereignty. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Caribbean literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Caribbean literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a African diaspora in literature. 650 0 $a Black people in literature. 650 0 $a Imperialism in literature. 650 0 $a Race in literature. 650 7 $a African diaspora in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01902319 650 7 $a American literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a American literature $x African American authors $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807114 650 7 $a Black people in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00834025 650 7 $a Caribbean literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00847469 650 7 $a Caribbean literature $x Black authors $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01424797 650 7 $a Imperialism in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00968142 650 7 $a Race in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086506 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Critiques litteÌraires. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001939 776 08 $i Online version: $a Owens, Imani D. $t Turn the world upside down. $d New York Columbia University Press [2023] $z 9780231557672 $w (OCoLC)1369147201 $w (OCoLC)1369147201 830 0 $a Black lives in the diaspora 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619010503.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=499DCCB82E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search