Lose your mother by saidiya hartman overdrive rakuten. The book is an account of the voyage that hartman, a columbia university literature professor, took along the middle passage. In every slave society, slave owners attempted to eradicate the slave s memory, that is, to erase all the evidence of an existence before slavery. Reindorf, carl christian, history of the gold coast and asante, basel, 1895. A journey along the atlantic slave route by saidiya hartman at this months kcpl books sandwiched in. A journey along the atlantic slave route christina sharpes deep engagement with the archive of black knowledge production across theory, fiction, poetry, and other intellectual endeavors offers an avalanche of new insights on how to think about antiblackness as a significant and important.
In lose your mother, saidiya hartman journeys along a slave route. A journey along the atlantic slave route is a nonfiction work in which us literature scholar saidiya hartman journeys to ghana to explore the history of slavery and her own ancestry. Click below to download the full study guide for lose your mother. Join michelle commander, university of tennessee assistant professor of english and africana, for a discussion of lose your mother. Jan 23, 2007 in hartmans new book, lose your mother.
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Terror, slavery, and selfmaking in nineteenthcentury america, and her essays have been widely published and anthologized. A journey along the atlantic slave route link read online download. 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. Saidiya v hartman 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. A journey along the atlantic slave route is saidiya v. Hartman saidiya v lose your mother a journey along the atlantic slave route new from hist 117 at goucher college. Saidiya hartman is professor of english and comparative literature at columbia university.
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. 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. Lose your mother the phrase lose your mother refers to the practice of instructing newly captured slaves to let go of the past, to forget who they are. Read lose your mother pdf a journey along the atlantic slave route by saidiya hartman farrar in lose your mother, saidiya hartman. Her university of chicago seminar last spring examined the sociological, literary, and historical work of w. Saidiya hartman, who grew up in brooklyn, holds degrees from wesleyan and yale and is on the faculty at columbia university. Feb 11, 2007 saidiya hartmans story of retracing the routes of the atlantic slave trade in ghana is an original, thoughtprovoking meditation on the corrosive legacy of slavery from the 16th century to the. A slave is a stranger, hartman says, torn from kin and community, exiled from ones country, dishonored and violated. Slavery and the culture of taste princeton university press. Read lose your mother a journey along the atlantic slave route by saidiya hartman available from rakuten kobo. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read.
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