Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Name: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
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ISBN: 9780393285673

ISBN-10: 0393285677

ISBN-13: 9780393285673

Edition: 2019

Authors: Saidiya Hartman

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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,…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2019
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/19/2019
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English