Description
| Product ID: | 9781788163248 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments |
| Subtitle: | Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals |
| Authors: | Author: Saidiya Hartman |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Gender studies: women and girls, Ethnic studies, Gender studies: women, Black & Asian studies, USA, c 1900 - c 1914 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Revolution in a minor key: how young black women invented freedom. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2020At 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Serpent's Tail |
| Publisher Name: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-03-04 |