Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments traces intimate histories of riotous Black girls, troublesome women, and queer radicals. Attentive to waywardness and experimentation, this work brings overlooked lives into focus and considers how everyday acts of resistance can imagine different possibilities for freedom, intimacy, and social life.
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the intimate histories of Black girls, troublesome women, and queer radicals.
Saidiya Hartman centers lives that challenge conventional accounts of history and social order.
The book considers waywardness, resistance, and experimentation as meaningful forms of living.
Its focus on intimacy offers a textured perspective on Black life, gender, and freedom.
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