Wayward lives, beautiful experiments : intimate histories of social upheaval
Hartman, Saidiya V.2019
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What was the fate of the first generations of black women born after abolition in America? Struggle: to create autonomous and beautiful lives, to escape new forms of servitude, and to live as if they really were free. This book recreates the radical imagination and wayward practices of these young women by describing the world through their eyes. Recreating their fragmentary life stories using a combination of archival research and virtuosic literary imagination, a very different vision of the 20th century emerges, one that offers an intimate chronicle of black radicalism. Here is an aesthetical and riotous history - a revolution in tastes and mores that set the stage for the Jazz Age and the social upheavels. The decades between 1890 and 1935 were decisive in determining the shape of 20th century modernity, and young black women were the unacknowledged agents of that transformation.
Main title:
Wayward lives, beautiful experiments : intimate histories of social upheaval / Saidiya Hartman.
Author:
Hartman, Saidiya V., author
Imprint:
London : Serpent's Tail, 2019.
Collation:
xxi, 390 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: W.W. Norton and Company.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781788163231 (pbk)
Dewey class:
305.48896073305.4889305.4889/PBK
LC class:
E185.86
Language:
English
Subject:
African American young women -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryAfrican American young women -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryAfrican American young women -- Sexual behavior -- HistorySingle women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th centurySingle women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryUrban women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryUrban women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th centurySex customs -- United States -- HistoryProstitution -- United States -- HistorySociety
BRN:
2511759
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