Wayward lives, beautiful experiments : intimate histories of social upheaval

Saidiya Hartman
Bok · Engelsk · 2019 Saidiya V. Hartman

Omfang	xxi, 441 sider : illustrasjoner
Utgave	First edition
Opplysninger	"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, for the first time, credits them with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Wayward Lives seeks to recover the radical aspirations and insurgent desires of these young women."--Provided by publisher.
Emner	African American young women - Sexual behavior - History : (DLC) sh2007007704 African American young women - Social conditions : (DLC) sh2007007704 Man-woman relationships : (DLC) sh 92001504 Prostitution - United States : (DLC) sh2008110119 Vis mer... Sex customs - History - United States : (DLC) sh2010112801 Single women - Sexual behavior : (DLC) sh 85122864 Urban women - Social conditions - United States : (DLC) sh 85141336 Afrikansk-amerikanere : (NO-TrBIB)HUME00790 Kvinner : (NO-TrBIB)HUME07186 Sosiale problemer : (NO-TrBIB)HUME09311 Ungdom : (NO-TrBIB)HUME11120
Dewey	305.48/896073
ISBN	978-0-393-28567-3