Reading Pleasures : Everyday Black Living in Early America

Name: Reading Pleasures
Brand: University of Illinois Press
SKU: 9780252086830
Price: 4150 KES
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ISBN: 9780252086830

by Tara A. Bynum

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 025208683X

ISBN-13 9780252086830

Publisher University of Illinois Press

Imprint University of Illinois Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 10th, 2023

Print length 184 Pages

Weight 280 grams

Dimensions 22.70 x 15.30 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Relating to African American / Black American people Literature: history & criticism Literature: history and criticism Social & cultural history Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Black & Asian studies Social and cultural history

KSh 4,150.00

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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.

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