![]() ![]() You would be hard-pressed to find contemporary radical black thought that is not the inspiration for or confirmation of her literary offerings. Her 1997 book, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-making in Nineteenth-century America, brought whole discourses into being with her urgent and expansive analysis of humanism, empathy and ‘the encumbrance of freedom’ for black people. The brilliance of Hartman’s work is in its wayward reach throughout the diaspora, its dedication to storying black life in relation to specific histories of transatlantic enslavement. ![]() How to honour the soft liquid rigour, the sharp vast tenderness, of a writer like Saidiya Hartman? Or, how might we honour any black woman, in all their loud unlovely nuance and careful wholeness? ![]() It is hard to review a book of such gravitas and importance a text that refuses the boundaries we were meant to exist within. ![]()
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