Author Talk: Hazel Carby reading from Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands
Moving between the Jamaican plantations, the hills of Devon, 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.
HAZEL CARBY, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, is the Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor Emeritus of African American Studies and Professor Emeritus of American Studies, Yale University.
“A heartbreaking and beautiful account of growing-up in the impossible space between mutually exclusive terms—Black and British. The history of empire, slavery and colonialism unfolds in the exquisite and painful details of this unflinching auto-portrait.”
Author’s talk and book signing. Refreshments will be served.
