Abstract:What kinds of lives emerge in the afterlife of slavery? What is a free life? In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman narrates a story of social transformation, exploring the ways young black women in the early twentieth century refused the second-class existence assigned to them. She examines alternative forms of intimacy and kinship that rejected the socially imposed standards of respectability. Hartman's work offers a powerful counter-narrative in which freedom materializes through the enact… Show more
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