Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Author:   Saidiya Hartman ,  Allyson Johnson
Publisher:   HighBridge Audio
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9781665128636


Publication Date:   09 April 2019
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Author:   Saidiya Hartman ,  Allyson Johnson
Publisher:   HighBridge Audio
Imprint:   HighBridge Audio
Edition:   Library Edition
ISBN:  

9781665128636


ISBN 10:   1665128631
Publication Date:   09 April 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Exhilarating...A rich resurrection of a forgotten history. -- New York Times Genre-bending literary history....These are dishy, illuminating, and heartbreaking stories about the knotted relationship between desire and freedom. -- Elle Here, for the first time, these women are credited with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) In granting these forgotten women a voice and conjuring their longing for freedom, Hartman resists the century-long diminution of their lives to social problems. -- New Republic


"""Exhilarating...A rich resurrection of a forgotten history."" -- ""New York Times"" ""Genre-bending literary history....These are dishy, illuminating, and heartbreaking stories about the knotted relationship between desire and freedom."" -- ""Elle"" ""Here, for the first time, these women are credited with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"" ""In granting these forgotten women a voice and conjuring their longing for freedom, Hartman resists the century-long diminution of their lives to social problems."" -- ""New Republic"""


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Saidiya Hartman is the author of several books, including Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, which won the 2019 National Book Critics' Circle Award and was longlisted for the PEN/Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and has been a Cullman Fellow and Fulbright Scholar. She is a professor at Columbia University. Allyson Johnson is an actress and singer who began performing at age twelve as coanchor of Bubble Gum Digest, for which she won an Emmy. After earning a degree in psychology from Brown University, she moved to New York where she became a social worker before shifting to a career in television and radio. Johnson has recorded countless commercials, promos, audiobooks, narrations, and animation series.

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