How Long to Read Cultures of Darkness

How Long Does it Take to Read Cultures of Darkness?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 37 minutes to read Cultures of Darkness by Bryan D. Palmer

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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.

How long is Cultures of Darkness?

Cultures of Darkness by Bryan D. Palmer is 625 pages long, and a total of 159,375 words.

This makes it 211% the length of the average book. It also has 195% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Cultures of Darkness Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 30 minutes to read Cultures of Darkness aloud.

What Reading Level is Cultures of Darkness?

Cultures of Darkness is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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