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Revolution in a minor key: how young black women invented freedom.

About the author

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

Summary

Revolution in a minor key: how young black women invented freedom.

Foreword

MacArthur 'genius' Saidiya Hartman pushes historical methods to the limit to imagine the lives of America's first free black women

Product details

• Authors: Saidiya Hartman, Hartman Saidiya
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781788163248
• ISBN: 978-1-78816-324-8
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Black & Asian Studies, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, Relating to African American / Black American people