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Reading Pleasures
- Everyday Black Living in Early America
Engelsk Paperback
Reading Pleasures
- Everyday Black Living in Early America
Engelsk Paperback

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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. 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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
184
ISBN-13:
9780252086830
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
025208683X
Udg. Dato:
10 jan 2023
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
153mm
Højde:
227mm
Forlag:
University of Illinois Press
Oplagsdato:
10 jan 2023
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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