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by: Howard W. Odum
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780253218544
ISBN: 0253218543
Label: Indiana University Press
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 339
Publication Date: April 29, 2006
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Sales Rank: 2061880
Studio: Indiana University Press
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'The Black Ulysses' trilogy presents a compendium of African American folklore collected by pioneer sociologist/folklorist, Howard W. Odum. The trilogy collects stories, songs, and folktales, which Odum uses to weave the narrative of his chief informant, John Wesley Gordon (Black Ulysses) as he travels the country, fights in World War I, and returns to the South. Odum's character demonstrates the extent to which folklore subjects and folklore style were part of his daily life. The book partially anticipates Zora Neale Hurston's 'Mules and Men' (1935), which placed folk materials in a narrative connected to Hurston. Odum, however, steps back from the narrative and allows his character to speak in a rich and energetic dialect. 'Rainbow Round My Shoulder' presents a feisty, inventive, marginalized folk hero with a zest for life.
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Rating: - A novel well worth reexamination
Howard W. Odum was a pioneering sociologist and folklorist who, as Steven C. Tracy states in his introduction, "...served as a starting point and impetus for studies of African American folklore since the time of his earliest folklore publications in 1909..." RAINBOW ROUND MY SHOULDER: The Blue Trail of the Black Ulysses is the first novel of a trilogy which mines African American folklore to create the narrative of a marginalized folk hero John Wesley "Left Wing" Gordon as he travels the country, ... Read More
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