Saidiya Hartman Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Wayward Lives, Beautiful ExperimentsCondition: NewSubtitle: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer RadicalsISBN-10: 0393357627EAN: 9780393357622ISBN: 9780393357622Publisher: WW Norton & CoFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 21/01/2020Description: Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. In wrestling with the question of what a free life is, many young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship indifferent to the dictates of respectability and outside the bounds of law. They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged sex to subsist, and revised the meaning of marriage. Longing and desire fueled their experiments in how to live. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work. Here, for the first time, these women are credited with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments recovers these women’s radical aspirations and insurgent desires.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 211mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 30mmItem Weight: 352gAuthor: Saidiya HartmanGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Gender Sex & Relationships, HistoryRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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