Carby, Hazel V
Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands
- ISBN 13:
- 9781788735100
- author:
- Carby, Hazel V
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Verso Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2021
- Pages:
- 416
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 12.9 centimeters (0.37 kg
- Genre:
- Biography, Personal Memoirs, ,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 6 working days
Description
Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands
A personal history that unravels the complex web of connections between the British Empire and one family's story. Born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Hazel V. Carby's place in post-war London was always in doubt. Her family's story is a haunting and evocative history of empire, told through the lives of her working-class grandmother, Beatrice, and other women who were shaped by the British Empire.
From the cosmopolitan fantasies of empire to the lives of women owned by British soldiers, Carby's family story moves between Jamaican plantations, the hills of Devon, and the working-class estates of South London. This is a story of the violent entanglement of two islands, and the complex identities that were forged in their midst.
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