
Reading Pleasures
Everyday Black Living in Early America
Sorozatcím:
New Black Studies Series;
Kiadás sorszáma: First Edition
Kiadó: University of Illinois Press
Megjelenés dátuma: 2023. január 10.
Kötetek száma: Hardback
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A termék adatai:
ISBN13: | 9780252044731 |
ISBN10: | 0252044738 |
Kötéstípus: | Keménykötés |
Terjedelem: | 184 oldal |
Méret: | 229x152 mm |
Nyelv: | angol |
686 |
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Hosszú leírás:
In the early United States, a Black person committed an act of resistance simply by reading and writing. Yet we overlook that these activities also brought pleasure. Tara A. Bynum tells the compelling stories of four early American writers who expressed feeling good despite living while enslaved or only nominally free. The poet Phillis Wheatley delights in writing letters to a friend. Ministers John Marrant and James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw memorialize their love for God. David Walker’s pamphlets ask Black Americans to claim their victory over slavery. Together, their writings reflect the joyous, if messy, humanity inside each of them. This proof of a thriving interior self in pursuit of good feeling forces us to reckon with the fact that Black lives do matter.
“Sit down, read this book, and become a changed reader, scholar, and human. Sit down, and learn from Tara Bynum about worlds of Black experience--joy, longing, pleasure--beyond the white gaze. Through her brilliant literary research and reading of early African American literature, Bynum achieves the full humanity that a viciously segregated, racialized world denies all of us: some in body, some in understanding and spirit. In so doing, this book exemplifies what the humanities should be all about.”--Joanna Brooks, author of Why We Left: Untold Songs and Stories of America's First Immigrants
A daring assertion of Black people’s humanity, Reading Pleasures reveals how four Black writers experienced positive feelings and analyzes the ways these emotions served creative, political, and racialized ends.
“Sit down, read this book, and become a changed reader, scholar, and human. Sit down, and learn from Tara Bynum about worlds of Black experience--joy, longing, pleasure--beyond the white gaze. Through her brilliant literary research and reading of early African American literature, Bynum achieves the full humanity that a viciously segregated, racialized world denies all of us: some in body, some in understanding and spirit. In so doing, this book exemplifies what the humanities should be all about.”--Joanna Brooks, author of Why We Left: Untold Songs and Stories of America's First Immigrants
Tartalomjegyzék:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Matter of Black Living
- Phillis Wheatley’s Pleasures
- James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw’s Joyful Conversion
- Desiring John Marrant
- David Walker’s Good News
Notes
Index