Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
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- Synopsis
- The slave, Saidiya 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. In Lose Your Mother, Hartman tracesthe history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana.There are no known survivors of Hartman's lineage, no relatives 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, vividly dramatising the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and American history.
- Copyright:
- 2021
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781782839293
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Date of Addition:
- 05/04/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Saidiya Hartman
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Narrated By:
- Allyson Johnson
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.