Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

SAIDIYA HARTMAN

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2019

In Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval Saidiya Hartman offers careful attention to the lives of early twentieth-century Black women, who society has cast as unimportant, deviant, menial, and forgettable. This masterful, poignant mourning and celebration of persistent freedom dreams reveals paths for writers and other creators. Hartman presents modes for working through and beyond inaccurate, violent, and missing archives. As a Black woman, I am thankful for Hartman's commitment to seeing us, caring for us, loving us, and imagining an otherwise.

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