Wayward Lives recovers their radical aspirations and insurgent desires, their unfinished revolution in a minor key. With visionary intensity, she conjures their worlds, their dilemmas, their defiant brilliance. 42-page comprehensive study guide Chapter-by-chapter summaries. 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. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. 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. One of the great hippie myths of the 1960s, Wayward, Just Another Life to Live, rewrites the narrative of a barefoot girl on the road to describe a life lived at full tilt from the first, revealing what it means to change course and her emotional struggle, learning to take back control of her own life. Wrestling with the question of freedom, they invented forms of love and solidarity outside convention and law. These women refused to labour like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work.
Their defeats were bitter, but their triumphs became the blueprint for a world that was waiting to be born. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle was to live as if they really were free. 'Exhilarating.A rich resurrection of a forgotten history' The New York TimesĪt the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. 'A startling, dazzling act of resurrection' Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow a beautiful experiment in its own right' Maggie Nelson
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