Talk:Saidiya Hartman

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Frank Wilderson[edit]

I am perplexed by the paragraph that claims Hartman's work "caught the attention of" Frank Wilderson. In the first place, this assertion seems to suggest that Hartman's work was relatively unknown before Wilderson encountered it. In the second place, it hardly seems surprising that Hartman's work came to his attention, since he was a graduate student at Berkeley while she was teaching there and sat on his dissertation committee. In the third place, Hartman's work has been engaged with rather widely and by scholars in a number of fields. A more effective strategy for illustrating the reception of her work would be to address that range as documented by the Arts and Humanities Citation Index or a survey of Humanities book reviews. Additionally, I do not understand the phrases "well-known for setting groundwork" and "this criticism examines unflinching paradigmatic analysis on the structures of modernity." I think a re-write of this paragraph is in order. ~~MS — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.231.40.142 (talk) 14:42, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Structure[edit]

There are a few sections here that could benefit from collective work through being streamlined or being edited to reduce issues with the overall structure of this entry.

The "Theoretical Concepts" section and both of the "Contributions to" sections cover similar ground, raising the question of what justifies these sections as being structurally distinct. With some reworking, the "Contributions to" sections could be incorporated into "Theoretical Concepts," perhaps as subheads. Alternately, the "Theoretical Concepts" section could be eliminated, and its material could be incorporated into the "Contributions to" sections. The section on "Wayward Lives..." could be similarly changed.

The "Promised Land" section seems to be intended to discuss an aspect of Hartman's work, but without introductory or contextualizing elements in its opening and body sentences (i.e., "In Lose Your Mother, Hartman argues..."), it reads more like a segment of original scholarly work that is summarizing Hartman's work as part of its own analysis. In general, though, this section may be best incorporated into the "Contributions to the Understanding of Slavery" section (or sub-section, per above), perhaps retitling that that section to something like "Contributions to the Understanding of Slavery and the African Diaspora."

---Werewolfnun (talk) 06:43, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Add entry for Scenes of subjection[edit]

Sadiya Hartman's book, Scenes pf Subjection, is a very important scholarly work, entitled to its own wikipedia entry. Mokshafarmsanctuary (talk) 22:35, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Mokshafarmsanctuary, are you interested in helping develop such a page? I see you’re new and I’d be glad to help you set it up, but I don’t currently have the bandwidth to write it myself. I agree there are plenty of sources from which one could write such a page tho, so if you’re interested I encourage you to be bold! Innisfree987 (talk) 22:37, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]