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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication date
January 1, 2007
Pages
270
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780374270827
ISBN-10
0374270821
Dimensions
1 by 6.50 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.20 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$25.00
§As reported by publisher
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval | Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies) | Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy) | Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave | In the Wake | The Half Has Never Been Told | Scenes of Subjection
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
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 history. The slave, Hartman observes, is a stranger, one 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, an alien. 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 draws her deeper into the heartland of slavery. She passes through the holding cells of military forts and castles, the ruins of towns and villages devastated by the trade, and thefortified settlements built to repel predatory armies and kidnappers. In artful passages of historical portraiture, she shows us an Akan prince who granted the Portuguese permission to build the first permanent trading fort in West Africa, a girl murdered aboard a slave ship, and a community of fugitives seeking a haven from slave raiders. Book jacket.Includes information on abolition, Atlantic slave trade, castles, children, cowrie shells, Isaac Cruikshank, Ottohab Cugoano, death disease, dungeons, Dutch slave trade, Elmina, Elmina Castle, Europe, female slaves, France, genealogy, Ghana, Gold Coast, Great Britain, Martin Luther King, Jr., male slaves, Kwame Nkrumah, Portugese slave trade, race, racism, rape, ruling class, Salaga, slavery, tourism, United States, violence, etc.Traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey the author took along a slave route in Ghana, vividly dramatizing the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African-American history.
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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. She traveled to Ghana in search of strangers. The most universal definition of the slave is a stranger--torn from kin and country. To lose your mother is to suffer the loss of kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as a stranger. As both the offspring of slaves and an American in Africa, Hartman, too, was a stranger. Her reflections on history and memory unfold as an intimate encounter with places--a holding cell, a slave market, a walled town built
to repel slave raiders--and with people: an Akan prince who granted the Portuguese permission to build the first permanent trading fort in West Africa; an adolescent boy who was kidnapped while playing; a fourteen-year-old girl who was murdered aboard a slave ship.
Eloquent, thoughtful, and deeply affecting, Lose Your Mother is a powerful meditation on history, memory, and the Atlantic slave trade.
There were no survivors of Hartman's lineage, nor far-flung relatives in Ghana of whom she had come in search. She traveled to Ghana in search of strangers. The most universal definition of the slave is a stranger--torn from kin and country. To lose your mother is to suffer the loss of kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as a stranger. As both the offspring of slaves and an American in Africa, Hartman, too, was a stranger. Her reflections on history and memory unfold as an intimate encounter with places--a holding cell, a slave market, a walled town built
to repel slave raiders--and with people: an Akan prince who granted the Portuguese permission to build the first permanent trading fort in West Africa; an adolescent boy who was kidnapped while playing; a fourteen-year-old girl who was murdered aboard a slave ship.
Eloquent, thoughtful, and deeply affecting, Lose Your Mother is a powerful meditation on history, memory, and the Atlantic slave trade.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Farrar Straus & Giroux (January 1, 2007)
9780374270827 | details & prices | 270 pages | 6.50 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $25.00
About: 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.
About: 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.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Farrar Straus & Giroux (January 22, 2008)
9780374531157 | details & prices | 270 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $15.00
About: Following a trail taken by captives from the heart of Ghana to the Atlantic coast, the author of Scenes of Subjection draws on her own lack of genealogy to trace the history of the slave trade and to assess the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African-American history.
About: Following a trail taken by captives from the heart of Ghana to the Atlantic coast, the author of Scenes of Subjection draws on her own lack of genealogy to trace the history of the slave trade and to assess the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African-American history.
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