Imani D Owens
Biographic Data
| ID | 1436713 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Imani D Owens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Imani D |
| FAMILY NAME | Owens |
| SIGNATURE | OWENS I D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Toward a “Truly Indigenous Theatre”: Sylvia Wynter Adapts Federico García Lorca
This article recuperates the creative work of Jamaican cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter, arguing that her activities as a dramatist and translator constitute foundational efforts to imagine an emerging postcolonial reading public. The article considers Wynter’s heretofore-neglected adaptation of Federico García Lorca’s La Casa De Bernarda Alba . The play appears in the newly founded Jamaica Journal in 1968, alongside an essay theorizing adaptation…
Hard Reading: US Empire and Black Modernist Aesthetics in Eric Walrond's Tropic Death
Recent years have seen renewed scholarly interest in Eric Walrond’s 1926 short story collection Tropic Death, a portrait of circum-Caribbean labor migration during the construction of the Panama Canal (1904-1914). This essay argues that Tropic Death not only helps broaden the geographical terrain of the Harlem Renaissance but also introduces US imperialism as a key framework for understanding black hemispheric modernity. By situating its discussi…
Beyond Authenticity: The US Occupation of Haiti and the Politics of Folk Culture
This essay turns to a seminal ethnography, Jean Price-Mars's So Spoke the Uncle (Ainsi parla l'oncle ), considering this text's engagement with the politics and poetics of Black folk culture during the US occupation of Haiti. It is well established that So Spoke the Uncle (1928) is a foundational text in indigéniste and noiriste movements, which offered ideological responses to the problem of US imperialism by turning to the beliefs and cultural …
Toward a “Truly Indigenous Theatre”: Sylvia Wynter Adapts Federico García Lorca
This article recuperates the creative work of Jamaican cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter, arguing that her activities as a dramatist and translator constitute foundational efforts to imagine an emerging postcolonial reading public. The article considers Wynter’s heretofore-neglected adaptation of Federico García Lorca’s La Casa De Bernarda Alba . The play appears in the newly founded Jamaica Journal in 1968, alongside an essay theorizing adaptation…
Hard Reading: US Empire and Black Modernist Aesthetics in Eric Walrond's Tropic Death
Recent years have seen renewed scholarly interest in Eric Walrond’s 1926 short story collection Tropic Death, a portrait of circum-Caribbean labor migration during the construction of the Panama Canal (1904-1914). This essay argues that Tropic Death not only helps broaden the geographical terrain of the Harlem Renaissance but also introduces US imperialism as a key framework for understanding black hemispheric modernity. By situating its discussi…
Beyond Authenticity: The US Occupation of Haiti and the Politics of Folk Culture
This essay turns to a seminal ethnography, Jean Price-Mars's So Spoke the Uncle (Ainsi parla l'oncle ), considering this text's engagement with the politics and poetics of Black folk culture during the US occupation of Haiti. It is well established that So Spoke the Uncle (1928) is a foundational text in indigéniste and noiriste movements, which offered ideological responses to the problem of US imperialism by turning to the beliefs and cultural …
Hard Reading: US Empire and Black Modernist Aesthetics in Eric Walrond's Tropic Death
Recent years have seen renewed scholarly interest in Eric Walrond’s 1926 short story collection Tropic Death, a portrait of circum-Caribbean labor migration during the construction of the Panama Canal (1904-1914). This essay argues that Tropic Death not only helps broaden the geographical terrain of the Harlem Renaissance but also introduces US imperialism as a key framework for understanding black hemispheric modernity. By situating its discussi…
Beyond Authenticity: The US Occupation of Haiti and the Politics of Folk Culture
This essay turns to a seminal ethnography, Jean Price-Mars's So Spoke the Uncle (Ainsi parla l'oncle ), considering this text's engagement with the politics and poetics of Black folk culture during the US occupation of Haiti. It is well established that So Spoke the Uncle (1928) is a foundational text in indigéniste and noiriste movements, which offered ideological responses to the problem of US imperialism by turning to the beliefs and cultural …
Toward a “Truly Indigenous Theatre”: Sylvia Wynter Adapts Federico García Lorca
This article recuperates the creative work of Jamaican cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter, arguing that her activities as a dramatist and translator constitute foundational efforts to imagine an emerging postcolonial reading public. The article considers Wynter’s heretofore-neglected adaptation of Federico García Lorca’s La Casa De Bernarda Alba . The play appears in the newly founded Jamaica Journal in 1968, alongside an essay theorizing adaptation…
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Cuban History and Society (2 works) · Historicity (philosophy (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works)