Scenes of Subjection

Praise for Saidiya Hartman and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction "Hartman has influenced an entire generation of scholars and afforded readers a proximity to the past that would otherwise be foreclosed."-The MacArthur Foundation "I'm enthralled by [Hartman's] gift for combining historical research with evocative imaginative leaps. Her writing in [Wayward Lives] is a profound act of reclamation, and a simply stunning read."-Maaza Mengiste "Hartman, one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers, introduced the term 'critical fabulation' into my world. She's a theorist and writer who actually changes what's possible in my thought patterns. It's exciting."-Claudia Rankine "I was inspired, surprised, and deeply moved. . . . [Hartman's] mode is intimate, radical and always alive to the details."-Leslie Jamison "[Wayward Lives] left me awestruck and grateful. I don't think I've ever read anything like it-radical, rigorous, lyrical, attentive. . . . I read this thinking that I want to be wherever Saidiya Hartman is."-Yaa Gyasi "Daring, and often inspiring. . . . Hartman is a tremendously gifted writer with the eye and the lyrical prose of a novelist. . . . The talent to do what Hartman does in [Wayward Lives] is rare."-Annette Gordon-Reed