![]() ![]() mode is intimate, radical and always alive to the details. She basically invents a new genre I was inspired, surprised and deeply moved. She's a theorist and writer who actually changes what's possible in my thought patterns Infuses the history of black women and queer radicals with incredible life and urgency. One of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers. ![]() ![]() With visionary intensity, she conjures their worlds, their dilemmas, their defiant brilliance. 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. Wrestling with the question of freedom, they invented forms of love and solidarity outside convention and law. These women refused to labour like slaves. ![]() The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle was to live as if they really were free. 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. ![]()
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