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, …
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.
Paperback, 464 pages
Published by W. W. Norton & Company, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc..
Paperback, 464 pages
Published by W. W. Norton & Company, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc..
Hardcover, 464 pages
Published by W. W. Norton & Company.
Paperback
Published by Serpent's Tail.
416 pages
English language
Published 2019 by Serpent's Tail Limited, Serpent's Tail.
audio cd, 1 pages
Published by Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing.
audio cd
Published by HighBridge Audio.
audio cd, 1 pages
Published by Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing.
English language
Published 2021 by Independently Published.
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