Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals
Saidiya Hartman
ISBN: | 9781788163231 |
Publisher: | Profile Books |
Published: | 1 October, 2019 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Allen And Unwin |
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals
Saidiya Hartman
What was the fate of the first generations of black women born after abolition in America? Struggle: to create autonomous and beautiful lives, to escape new forms of servitude, and to live as if they really were free. This book recreates the radical imagination and wayward practices of these young women by describing the world through their eyes.Recreating their fragmentary life stories using a combination of archival research and virtuosic literary imagination, a very different vision of the twentieth century emerges, one that offers an intimate chronicle of black radicalism. Here is an aesthetical and riotous history - a revolution in tastes and mores that set the stage for the Jazz Age and the social upheavels. The decades between 1890 and 1935 were decisive in determining the shape of 20th century modernity, and young black women were the unacknowledged agents of that transformation.
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