{"product_id":"imperial-intimacies-a-tale-of-two-islands-paperback","title":"Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHazel V. Carby\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the British Academy's Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2020 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHighly commended for PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2020  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eA haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Where are you from?\" was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-war London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby's place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Emerging from this setting, Carby untangles the threads connecting members of her family in a web woven by the British Empire across the Atlantic. We meet Carby's working-class grandmother Beatrice, a seamstress challenged by poverty and disease. In England, she was thrilled by the cosmopolitan fantasies of empire, by cities built with slave-trade profits, and by street peddlers selling fashionable Jamaican delicacies. In Jamaica, we follow the lives of both the \"white Carbys\" and the \"black Carbys,\" including Mary Ivey, a free woman of colour, whose children are fathered by Lilly Carby, a British soldier who arrived in Jamaica in 1789 to be absorbed into the plantation aristocracy. And we discover the hidden stories of Bridget and Nancy, two women owned by Lilly who survived the Middle Passage from Africa to the Caribbean. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Moving between Jamaican plantations, the hills of Devon, the port cities of Bristol, Cardiff, and Kingston, and the working-class estates of South London, Carby's family story is at once an intimate personal history and a sweeping summation of the violent entanglement of two islands. In charting British empire's interweaving of capital and bodies, public language and private feeling, Carby will find herself reckoning with what she can tell, what she can remember, and what she can bear to know.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHazel V. Carby\u003c\/b\u003e is a co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 70s Britain\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eCultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRace Men\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eReconstructing Womanhood\u003c\/i\u003e. For three decades she taught at Yale University as the Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies and Professor of American Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 12, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767969841440,"sku":"9781788735100","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bd37d2b8e9825f83616a6cb8449ac369.jpg?v=1780321854","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/imperial-intimacies-a-tale-of-two-islands-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}