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Book SynopsisTrade Review"What is most beautiful about these chapters is the way that Bynum maintains a delightful voice, a first-person perspective that centers her own pleasure in the researching and writing of this book. Her curiosity permeates each page. . . . She models for the reader what it is to read with curiosity and how to allow the interiority of others to inform our own, resulting in a communal experience." --
Little Village Magazine “Sit down, read this book, and become a changed reader, scholar, and
human. Sit down, and learn from Tara Bynum about worlds of Black experience--joy, longing, pleasure--beyond the white gaze. Through her brilliant literary research and reading of early African American literature, Bynum achieves the full humanity that a viciously segregated, racialized world denies all of us: some in body, some in understanding and spirit. In so doing, this book exemplifies what the humanities
should be all about.”--Joanna Brooks, author of
Why We Left: Untold Songs and Stories of America's First ImmigrantsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: The Matter of Black Living
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- Phillis Wheatley’s Pleasures
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- James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw’s Joyful Conversion
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- Desiring John Marrant
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- David Walker’s Good News
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Coda; Or, Reading Pleasures: Looking for Arbour/Obour/Orbour
Notes
Index
