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Saidiya Hartman is a Columbia University professor of English and Comparative Literature. She is the author of Scenes of Subjection and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments. In 2019, she was awarded a MacArthur 'Genius' Grant.An original, thought-provoking meditation on the corrosive legacy of slavery ... driven by this writer's prodigious narrative gifts.
- Elizabeth Schmidt, The New York Times
One of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers ... She's a theorist and writer who actually changes what's possible in my thought patterns
- Claudia Rankine,
This is a memoir about loss, alienation, and estrangement, but also, ultimately, about the power of art to remember ... A magnificent achievement.
- Henry Louis Gates Jr,
By addressing gaps and omissions in accounts of trans-Atlantic slavery ... Hartman has influenced an entire generation of scholars and afforded readers a proximity to the past that would otherwise be foreclosed.
- MacArthur statement,
[Hartman writes] with striking intimacy, evoking the feelings and the conditions of Black life
- Alexis Okeowo, New Yorker
Praise for Saidiya Hartman:
"She was so smart that I thought the windows were gonna blow out, the quickness of her mind and the sharpness of her critique were breathtaking."
- Judith Butler, on meeting Hartman
She's not an 'angry Black woman. She's not Assata Shakur. But what they don't know is that, where Assata Shakur will blow your head off, Saidiya has just put a stiletto between your ribs.
- Frank B. Wilderson III, Chair of the Department of African-American stucies, UC Irivine,