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Reading Pleasures : Everyday Black Living in Early America / Tara A. Bynum.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bynum, Tara, author.
- Series:
- New Black studies series.
- New Black Studies Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors.
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 29, 2023).
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Bynum, Tara A. Reading Pleasures
- ISBN:
- 9780252053788
- OCLC:
- 1352968021
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