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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments de Saidiya Hartman

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

Autor Saidiya Hartman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 ian 2020

Descoperim în Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments o aplicabilitate practică surprinzătoare a cercetării istorice: modul în care viața intimă poate deveni un spațiu de rezistență politică. Saidiya Hartman nu se limitează la o simplă cronică a opresiunii, ci reconstruiește, cu o inteligență literară profundă, experimentele sociale ale femeilor de culoare care au refuzat normele restrictive ale începutului de secol XX. Găsim în această ediție o structură documentată riguros, îmbogățită de fotografii de arhivă, care oferă chipuri și context vizual unor destine rămase mult timp în umbra istoriei oficiale. Abordarea este una de tip istorie socială și culturală, axată pe micro-istorii ale unor figuri considerate în epocă „rebele” sau „problematice”. Cartea reprezintă o alternativă necesară la As If She Were Free pentru cursurile de istorie americană și studii de gen, cu avantajul că Hartman trece dincolo de biografia convențională, folosind o narațiune speculativă care umple golurile din arhivele oficiale. Această metodă, pe care autoarea a rafinat-o de la debutul său cu Scenes of Subjection și a explorat-o în profunzime în Lose Your Mother, poziționează volumul ca o culminare a preocupărilor sale privind „viața de după” sclavie. Dacă în lucrările anterioare se concentra pe trauma dezrădăcinării, aici celebrăm inventivitatea și solidaritatea celor care au creat forme de iubire și comunitate în afara legii, prefigurând mișcările sociale moderne.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780393357622
ISBN-10: 0393357627
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 138 x 209 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: W. W. Norton & Company

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de istoria socială care caută o perspectivă umană, nu doar statistică, asupra perioadei de după emancipare în SUA. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care identitățile queer și structurile familiale alternative au fost pionierate de femei marginalizate. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege rădăcinile libertății individuale moderne, oferind un model de rezistență prin creativitate și refuzul conformismului.

Despre autor

Saidiya Hartman este o figură centrală în studiile afro-americane contemporane, fiind profesoară la Columbia University și fost cadru didactic la UC Berkeley. Cariera sa este marcată de explorarea modului în care sclavia și consecințele sale au modelat identitatea și intimitatea în America. Prin lucrări precum Lose Your Mother, ea a stabilit un nou standard în cercetarea arhivelor, combinând rigoarea academică cu o sensibilitate narativă rară, metodă care i-a adus recunoașterea internațională și numeroase premii literare și academice.

Descriere scurtă

Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. In wrestling with the question of what a free life is, 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. Here, for the first time, these women are credited with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments recovers these women's radical aspirations and insurgent desires.

Notă biografică

Saidiya Hartman is a Columbia University professor of English and Comparative Literature. She is the author of Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-making in Nineteenth Century America (1997) and Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (2007). In 2019, Hartman was awarded a prestigious MacArthur 'Genius' Grant.

Recenzii

One of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers ... She's a theorist and writer who actually changes what's possible in my thought patterns
Infuses the history of black women and queer radicals with incredible life and urgency. She basically invents a new genre
I was inspired, surprised and deeply moved....[Hartman's] mode is intimate, radical and always alive to the details.
This is scholarship as art
Exhilarating....A rich resurrection of a forgotten history....[Hartman's] rigor and restraint give her writing its distinctive electricity and tension....This kind of beautiful, immersive narration exists for its own sake but it also counteracts the most common depictions of black urban life from this time.
Ambitious, original... a beautiful experiment in its own right, to be set beside the many attempts at living free that Hartman here chronicles with a keen sense of history, imagination, and love.
Wayward Lives is a startling, dazzling act of resurrection... These remarkable black women were shamed, scorned, criminalized, studied, diagnosed and then erased from history. Yet now, Hartman challenges us to see, finally, who they really were: beautiful, complex, and multidimensional-whole people - who dared to live by their own rules, somehow making a way out of no way at all.
With urgency and compassion, Hartman rescues the lives of young black women from the margins of history. Wayward Lives is a series of adventure stories that take the reader through the travails and triumphs of a multitude of black women, as they negotiate the perilous path of self-discovery at the turn of the twentieth century. In her impeccably researched new book, Hartman breathes glorious life into these true survival tales with the precision and invention of a master storyteller.
Fantastic, really amazing ... daring
A beautiful, meticulously researched exploration of the lives of Black girls whom early-20th-century laws designated as "wayward" for such crimes as having serial lovers, or an excess of desire, or a style of comportment that was outside white norms. From the few traces she uncovers in the historical record, Hartman manages to sketch moving portraits, restoring joy and freedom and movement to what, in other hands, might have been mere statistics
Wayward Lives unsorts the archive looking for the errant, the unruly, the gorgeously disarranged paths of fugitive black girls. Fleeing from respectability, the good, the right and the true, the black girls that interest Hartman are everyday revolutionaries or what she calls 'chorines, bulldaggers, aesthetical negroes, socialists, lady lovers, pansies and anarchists.' This book is a love song to the wayward, a riotous poem, a lyrical homage to the minor. It changes the way we do history, the way we constitute the political, and makes resistance newly visible in the ordinary. This book changes everything.
Saidiya Hartman tells a mesmerizing story with a multitude of women as its heroines, lifting up invisible black seekers within the cities of one hundred years ago to the light of memory and tribute. She uses the weapons of lyric and literature to steal 'colored women' away from the grasp of white lawmen and the clinical gaze, and along the way gives history what it lacks and wants-black women as secret agents of destiny, deep lives from the unnamed crowd, and underground sinners as the true sponsors of social change.
A masterpiece... The wayward lives and beautiful experiments in which Professor Hartman is interested can only be described and illuminated in wayward and experimental ways-not in analytic detachment but by joining the experiment, by engaging in its hard-won freedoms, its autonomous profligacies, its shifting directions... Hartman radically reimagines the very idea of the portrait... A truly great and groundbreaking book.
Lyrical and novelistic....This passionate, poetic retrieval of women from the footnotes of history is a superb literary achievement
How to honour the soft liquid rigour, the sharp vast tenderness, of a writer like Saidiya Hartman? ... For those of us who turn to the archive seeking comfort, looking for old ways of looking at new things, for redress to our subjugated history - this book is a balm and a pedagogic tool. Wayward Lives is a book that wants you to live.
Lyrical and highly readable ... Hartman opens a window onto a form of resistance less well documented than the protests led by organised labour and civil rights campaigners