Imperial Intimacies - A Tale of Two Islands

"A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story 'Where are you from?' Hazel Carby was continually asked as a girl, at a time when being Black and being British was understood to be an impossibility. To answer that question properly, eminent scholar Hazel Carby finds she needs to trace not justthe family history of her Jamaican father and her Welsh mother, but to untangle knots the British Empire created across the Atlantic. Tracing the skeins of this knotted past through the method of 'autohistory, ' Imperial Intimacies charts empire's violent interweaving of lives and states, Jamaica and Britain, capital and bodies, public language and private feeling. In so doing, Carby will find herself reckoning with what she can tell, what she can remember, and what she can bear to know."--]cProvided by publisher.

About the author

Hazel V. Carby is a co-author of The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 70s Britain and author of Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America, Race Men, and Reconstructing Womanhood. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Hazel V Carby, Hazel V. Carby
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781788735100
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-510-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; England, Ethnic Studies, Biography: historical, political & military, Jamaica, British Empire, Memoirs, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Colonialism & imperialism, Feminism & feminist theory, Colonialism and imperialism, Relating to Black British Caribbean people, Feminism and feminist theory, Biography: historical, political and military, Black & Asian Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs