Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

1. “Venus in Two Acts” by Saidiya Hartman (2008)

2. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya Hartman (1997)

3. “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book” by Hortense Spillers (1987)

4. “How Saidiya Hartman Retells the History of Black Life” by Alexis Okeowo (2020)

5. “An Exhilarating Work of History About Daring Adventures in Love” by Parul Sehgal (2019)