Ebook {Epub PDF} Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman

In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast. She retraces the history of the Atlantic slave trade from the fifteenth to the twentieth century and reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy. There were no survivors of Hartman's lineage, nor far-flung relatives in Ghana of whom she had come in search/5.  · 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 /5(2). Abstract. "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, Hartman reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African-American www.doorway.rus: Hartman, Saidiya V.

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route is Saidiya V. Hartman's autobiography. As a descendant of enslaved Africans, she embarks on a journey to search for strangers "who left behind no traces" (15) and to find answers to her unknown ancestral connections in Africa. Hartman's book does more than unearth the. in Saidiya Hartmans Lose Your Mother Tisba M. Brooks [W]hen we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise. - Chimamanda Adichie Introduction her book Lose Your Mother: A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route, Saidiya Hartman describes her reason for. In Hartman's new book, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, she returns to Ghana to do research, but instead finds personal transformation. Special Series Crossing the Divide.

In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast. She retraces the history of the Atlantic slave trade from the fifteenth to the twentieth century and reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy. There were no survivors of Hartman's lineage, nor far-flung relatives in Ghana of whom she had come in search. 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. 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.