
MacArthur Fellows Program
Saidiya Hartman
Literary Scholar and Cultural Historian | Class of 2019
Tracing the afterlife of slavery in modern American life and rescuing from oblivion stories of sparsely documented lives that have been systematically excluded from historical archives.
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November 7, 2019
"The Plot of Her Undoing"
October 8, 2019
"Regard for One Another: A Conversation Between Rizvana Bradley and Saidiya Hartman"
September 25, 2019
"Here are the Seven Writers Who Just Won MacArthur “Genius” Grants."
September 25, 2019
Saidiya Hartman, Literary Scholar and Cultural Historian | 2019 MacArthur Fellow
Tracing the afterlife of slavery in modern American life and rescuing from oblivion stories of sparsely documented lives that have been systematically excluded from historical archives.
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