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Reading Pleasures
2023
Overview
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.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Subject
ISBN
0252044738, 9780252044731, 9780252053788, 0252053788, 025208683X, 9780252086830
