5/20/2023 0 Comments Wayward lives book![]() ![]() But for Hartman these sources chronicle something entirely different: the practices and histories of social visionaries, who engaged in radical experiments of living otherwise despite the difficult surroundings that they encountered in Philadelphia’s Seventh Ward, the Tenderloin district in New York, Harlem and other urban Black neighborhoods in the early twentieth century. Almost all these sources present the often newly arrived women from the US South as being on a wayward path-in short: as problems. Set in the urban landscapes of New York and Philadelphia in the decades between 18, Hartman finds her protagonists- mostly young Black women-in a wide range of archival materials: journals of rent collectors sociological studies trial transcripts slum photographs reports of vice investigators, social workers, and parole officers prison files. This also holds true for her most recent book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (2019). Her vantage point for writing is oftentimes fraught and incomplete archival records that eclipse and overdetermine Black subjects’ histories. Saidiya Hartman is a Cultural Historian and Literary Scholar whose work explores histories of slavery and its afterlives primarily in a North American context. ![]() ![]() ![]() Doctoral fellow of the Research Training Group Minor Cosmopolitanisms ![]()
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