Lose Your Mother A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route

Name: Lose Your Mother A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route
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ISBN: 9780374531157

ISBN-10: 0374531153

ISBN-13: 9780374531157

Edition: N/A

Authors: Saidiya Hartman

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Innbsp;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…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 1/22/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.66" wide x 8.28" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English