THE MORNING LIST
On the occasion of the 27thare Meeting on the history of Blois, which will bring together hundreds of historians from October 9 to 13 around the theme “The City”, “Le Monde des livres” today offers a selection of guest publications from the festival, such as Saidiya Hartman and Peter Frankopan , whose, respectively, Rebel lives – about the lives of black women in the United States after the end of slavery – and The metamorphoses of the earth – where the relationships between humanity and the climate are rethought in depth – are announced as two events. The historian Pauline Valade dedicates a novel, bruno and juanuntil the last two condemned to death for homosexuality in France, executed in 1750. Two books, finally, explore the theme of the party: History of the suburbsby Thibault Tellier, and the interdisciplinary collective (Re)think citiescoordinated by Loïc Vadelorge.
HISTORY OF WOMEN. “Rebel Lives”, by Saidiya Hartman
It is a work of art made by Saidiya Hartman. Carving out destinations from what is missing in the archives. In Rebel livesIn an inspired essay that combines scientific rigor with the power of literature, the American researcher sheds light on the lives of African-American women who fled the segregationist South at the end of the 19th century.my century and early 20th centurymy hoping to find freedom and dignity in the North.
To do this, examine thousands of pages of research reports. “They all present these black women as a problem.” Because they challenged authority, of course. But above all, simply because they are black. Beyond these individual cases, it is a “Serial biography of an entire generation.” that she composed: the second or third born after the official end of slavery in 1865. In the background, we can see the functioning of a young society where “Freedom was still in an experimental stage”.
Saidiya Hartman thus offers these women what had been confiscated from them: full intimacy and humanity, avoiding any Manichaeism and angelism. TO “personal wayshe said, “to repair the violence of history, to write a love letter to all those who had suffered.”making these women protagonists of their destiny and not simple victims. SK-G.
HISTORY OF CLIMATE. “The Metamorphoses of the Earth”, by Peter Frankopan
The metamorphoses of the earthby Peter Frankopan, is a book of wild ambition. Peter Frankopan proposes nothing less than to explore how the environment has shaped human societies since their appearance and how the latter have transformed them until reaching, today, a point of no return.
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