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03356aam a2200493 i 4500 001 72D59FA6DDAE11EDB031D5162DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230418010100 008 221103t20232023ilu b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2022025000 020 $a 025208683X 020 $a 9780252086830 020 $a 0252044738 020 $a 9780252044731 035 $a (OCoLC)1350640183 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCF $d SLV $d YDX $d BBH $d CDX $d BDX $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PS153.B53 $b B96 2023 082 04 $a 810.9/896073 $2 23 100 1 $a Bynum, Tara, $e author. 245 10 $a Reading pleasures : $b everyday Black living in early America / $c Tara A. Bynum. 264 1 $a Urbana : $b University of Illinois Press, $c [2023] 300 $a x, 161 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a The new Black studies series 520 $a "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."-- $c Back cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $g 4. $t Coda; Or, Reading Pleasures: looking for arbour/obour/orbour. $g 1. $t Phillis Wheatley's Pleasures -- $g 2. $t James Albert Ukawsaw Gronnioswa's Joyful Conversion -- $g 3. $t Desiring John Marrant -- $g 4. $t David Walker's Good News $t Coda; Or, Reading Pleasures: looking for arbour/obour/orbour. 600 10 $a Wheatley, Phillis, $d 1753-1784 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Marrant, John, $d 1755-1791 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Walker, David, $d 1785-1830 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00166769 600 17 $a Marrant, John, $d 1755-1791. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00180870 600 17 $a Walker, David, $d 1785-1830. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00264944 600 17 $a Wheatley, Phillis, $d 1753-1784. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00005254 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a American literature $x African American authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807114 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 830 0 $a New Black studies series. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117013008.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=72D59FA6DDAE11EDB031D5162DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search