Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

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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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Source title: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

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E185.86 .H379 2020, E185.86 .H379 2019

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464

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OL28919648M
ISBN 10
0393357627
ISBN 13
9780393357622
OCLC/WorldCat
1138680547, 1102467720

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