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Rainbow Round My Shoulder Paperback - 2006

by Howard W. Odum


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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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  • Title Rainbow Round My Shoulder
  • Author Howard W. Odum
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 384
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press
  • Date April 29, 2006
  • ISBN 9780253218544

About the author

Howard W. Odum (1884-1954) was a sociologist, known in academic circles for his studies of the South. Others knew him for his collections of black folksongs--The Negro and His Songs (1925) and Negro Workaday Songs (1926) prepared in collaboration with Guy B. Johnson--and for three "novels" based on the life of a black laborer and known collectively as the Black Ulysses Trilogy.

Steven C. Tracy is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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