{"product_id":"reading-pleasures-9780252086830","title":"Reading Pleasures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" --\u003ci\u003eLittle Village Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Sit down, read this book, and become a changed reader, scholar, and \u003ci\u003ehuman\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eshould be\u003c\/i\u003e all about.”--Joanna Brooks, author of \u003ci\u003eWhy We Left: Untold Songs and Stories of America's First Immigrants\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Matter of Black Living\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhillis Wheatley’s Pleasures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJames Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw’s Joyful Conversion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesiring John Marrant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDavid Walker’s Good News\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Coda; Or, Reading Pleasures: Looking for Arbour\/Obour\/Orbour\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400522703191,"sku":"9780252086830","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252086830.jpg?v=1730470888","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-pleasures-9780252086830","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}