Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave RouteIn Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African American history. The slave, Hartman observes, is a stranger torn from family, home, and

In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African American history.

The slave, Hartman observes, is a stranger--torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider. There are no known survivors of Hartman's lineage, no relatives in Ghana whom she came hoping to find. She is a stranger in search of strangers, and this fact leads her into intimate engagements with the people she encounters along the way and with figures from the past whose lives were shattered and transformed by the slave trade. Written in prose that is fresh, insightful, and deeply affecting, Lose Your Mother is a landmark text (Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams).

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 01/22/2008
ISBN: 9780374531157
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.80d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 02/17/2008 pg. 24
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