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Wayward lives, beautiful experiments (Record no. 74510)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781788163231
080 ## - UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Universal Decimal Classification number DIV HAR
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Hartman, Saidiya V
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Wayward lives, beautiful experiments
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Profile Books Ltd
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2019
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Monograph
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle was to live as if they really were free. Their defeats were bitter, but their triumphs became the blueprint for a world that was waiting to be born. These women refused to labour like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work. Wrestling with the question of freedom, they invented forms of love and solidarity outside convention and law. 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. 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. With visionary intensity, she conjures their worlds, their dilemmas, their defiant brilliance. Wayward Lives recovers their radical aspirations and insurgent desires, their unfinished revolution in a minor key.</span></p>
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        Whittington Health Library Whittington Health Library Shelves 06/10/2020   DIV HAR 00018139 06/06/2022 06/06/2022 Book