Wayward lives, beautiful experiments : intimate histories of riotous black girls, troublesome women,...
Wayward lives, beautiful experiments : intimate histories of riotous black girls, troublesome women,...
Wayward lives, beautiful experiments : intimate histories of riotous black girls, troublesome women, and queer radicals / Saidiya Hartman.
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Publisher
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
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G 2020/4020
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxi, 441 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
A note on method -- Cast of characters -- Book One. She makes an errant path through the city. The terrible beauty of the slum -- A minor figure -- An unloved woman -- An intimate history of slavery and freedom -- Manual for general housework -- An atlas of the wayward -- A chronicle of need and wan...
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Publisher
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2020.
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Summary
"A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, co...
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Wayward lives, beautiful experiments : intimate histories of riotous black girls, troublesome women, and queer radicals / Saidiya Hartman.
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"First published as a Norton paperback 2020"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-418) and index.
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©2019
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G 2020/4020
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74VKaMrX43K3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaMrX43K3
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ISBN
9780393357622 (pbk.)
0393357627 (pbk.)
DDC
305.48896073
MMS ID
991024349415202626
