Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (eBook)

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

Saidiya Hartman (Autor)

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2019
ProFile (Verlag)
9781782835899 (ISBN)

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One of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers ... She's a theorist and writer who actually changes what's possible in my thought patterns

Exhilarating....A rich resurrection of a forgotten history....[Hartman's] rigor and restraint give her writing its distinctive electricity and tension....This kind of beautiful, immersive narration exists for its own sake but it also counteracts the most common depictions of black urban life from this time.

Lyrical and highly readable ... Hartman opens a window onto a form of resistance less well documented than the protests led by organised labour and civil rights campaigners

A beautiful, meticulously researched exploration of the lives of Black girls whom early-20th-century laws designated as "wayward" for such crimes as having serial lovers, or an excess of desire, or a style of comportment that was outside white norms. From the few traces she uncovers in the historical record, Hartman manages to sketch moving portraits, restoring joy and freedom and movement to what, in other hands, might have been mere statistics

Infuses the history of black women and queer radicals with incredible life and urgency. She basically invents a new genre

Saidiya Hartman tells a mesmerizing story with a multitude of women as its heroines, lifting up invisible black seekers within the cities of one hundred years ago to the light of memory and tribute. She uses the weapons of lyric and literature to steal 'colored women' away from the grasp of white lawmen and the clinical gaze, and along the way gives history what it lacks and wants-black women as secret agents of destiny, deep lives from the unnamed crowd, and underground sinners as the true sponsors of social change.

This is scholarship as art

Lyrical and novelistic....This passionate, poetic retrieval of women from the footnotes of history is a superb literary achievement

A masterpiece... The wayward lives and beautiful experiments in which Professor Hartman is interested can only be described and illuminated in wayward and experimental ways-not in analytic detachment but by joining the experiment, by engaging in its hard-won freedoms, its autonomous profligacies, its shifting directions... Hartman radically reimagines the very idea of the portrait... A truly great and groundbreaking book.

I was inspired, surprised and deeply moved....[Hartman's] mode is intimate, radical and always alive to the details.

Ambitious, original... a beautiful experiment in its own right, to be set beside the many attempts at living free that Hartman here chronicles with a keen sense of history, imagination, and love.

Fantastic, really amazing ... daring

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.8.2019
• Zusatzinfo: Black and white photos throughout
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: 19th century • 20's • 30's • African American • America • Baltimore • bell hooks • Bernadine Evaristo • Bernadine EvaristoGirl, Woman, Other • Black History • Black Reconstruction • Carmen Maria Machado In the Dream House • CLR James • Colson Whitehead • Critical Fabulation • Eimear McBride • esi edugyan • Feminist literature • First World War • Ghetto • Girl, Woman, Other • Great Migration • Harlem Renaissance • Harlem Rennaisance • Hazel Carby Imperial Intimacies • James Baldwin • Jazz • Jim Crow • Judith Butler • LGBT • MacArthur Genius Grant • Maggie Nelson • National Book Critics Circle • New York • Paul Gilroy • Philadelphia • Post-Slavery • Progress • Queer Theory • radicalism • Revolution • silvia federici • Social History • souls of black folk • Svetlana Alexievich • Ta-Nehisi Coates • Teju Cole • Toni Morrison • WEB Dubois • wg sebald • Women • zora neale hurston
• ISBN-13: 9781782835899 / 9781782835899