{"product_id":"reading-pleasures-tara-a-bynum-9780252086830","title":"Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America","description":"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 \u003ci\u003edo\u003c\/i\u003e matter. \u003cp\u003eA daring assertion of Black people's humanity, \u003ci\u003eReading Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how four Black writers experienced positive feelings and analyzes the ways these emotions served creative, political, and racialized ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tara A. Bynum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 025208683X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252086830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.63d","brand":"Tara A. Bynum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44070627049727,"sku":"9780252086830","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0b35a20a-71f0-4dbe-b064-506596281ad9.jpg?v=1685431420","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reading-pleasures-tara-a-bynum-9780252086830","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}