Lose Your Mother

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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 traces the 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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781788168144
Published: July 2021

Number of pages: 288
Width: 128 mm
Height: 196 mm
Depth: 20 mm

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd