Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Saidiya Hartman

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In the early twentieth century, young black women were in open rebellion. A social revolution unfolded in the city.In wrestling with the question, “What is a free life?” 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.Beautifully written, Wayward Lives narrates the story of this radical transformation of black intimate and social life. It re-creates the experience of young black women who desired an existence qualitatively different than the one that had been scripted for them, and, for the first time, credits them with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Through a melding of history and literary imagination,… click to read more

Year:
2019

Publisher:
W. W. NORTON & COMPANY

Language:
english

ISBN 13:
9780393285673

File:
PDF, 31.94 MB