Peasants, religious heretics, witches, pirates, runaway slaves,
prostitutes and pornographers, frequenters of taverns and fraternal
society lodge rooms, revolutionaries, blues and jazz musicians,
beats, and contemporary youth gangs--those who defied authority,
choosing to live outside the defining cultural dominions of early
insurgent and, later, dominant capitalism are what Bryan D. Palmer
calls people of the night. These lives of opposition, or otherness,
were seen by the powerful as deviant, rejecting authority, and
consequently threatening to the established order.
Constructing a rich historical tapestry of example and
experience spanning eight centuries, Palmer details lives of
exclusion and challenge, as the "night travels" of the
transgressors clash repeatedly with the powerful conventions of
their times. Nights of liberation and exhilarating desire--sexual
and social--are at the heart of this study. But so too are the
dangers of darkness, as marginality is coerced into corners of
pressured confinement, or the night is used as a cover for
brutalizing terror, as was the case in Nazi Germany or the lynching
of African Americans.
Making extensive use of the interdisciplinary literature of
marginality found in scholarly work in history, sociology, cultural
studies, literature, anthropology, and politics, Palmer takes an
unflinching look at the rise and transformation of capitalism as it
was lived by the dispossessed and those stamped with the mark of
otherness.
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