Saidiya Hartman: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Dor Guez As a viable alternative amidst

As a viable alternative amidst worsening social conditions

20 × 12 cm

to where we first began

In the production of his work

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Saidiya Hartman: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Dor Guez As a viable alternative amidstSerpent's Tail, 2021, softcover, 416 pages, 12. 9 x 19. 8 cm At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle was to live as if they really were free. These women refused to labour like slaves. Wrestling with the question of freedom, they invented forms of love and solidarity outside convention and law. These were the pioneers of free love,