Description: Wayward Lives, Beautiful ExperimentsIntimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals Author(s): Saidiya Hartman Format: Paperback Publisher: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom Imprint: Serpent's Tail ISBN-13: 9781788163248, 978-1788163248 Synopsis WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2020 At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle was to live as if they really were free. These women refused to labour like slaves. Wrestling with the question of freedom, they invented forms of love and solidarity outside convention and law. These were the pioneers of free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer identities, and single motherhood - all deemed scandalous, even pathological, at the dawn of the twentieth century, though they set the pattern for the world to come. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman deploys both radical scholarship and profound literary intelligence to examine the transformation of intimate life that they instigated. With visionary intensity, she conjures their worlds, their dilemmas, their defiant brilliance.
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Book Title: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Name: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals
Language: English
Publisher: Profile Books
Item Height: 198 mm
Subject: Social Sciences, Zoology, History
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 345 g
Author: Saidiya Hartman
Item Width: 129 mm
Format: Paperback
