Saidiya Hartman: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Dor Guez Translated into French

Translated into French

John Cassavetes

Jenny’s (New York

with feet planted firmly on the soil

Saidiya Hartman: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Dor Guez Translated into FrenchSerpent'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,