عنوان

Lose your mother :

(Number (ISBN

0374270821

(Number (ISBN

0374531153

(Number (ISBN

9780374270827

(Number (ISBN

9780374531157

Number

b412127

Title Proper

Lose your mother :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a journey along the Atlantic slave route /

First Statement of Responsibility

Saidiya Hartman

Edition Statement

1st ed

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2007

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 270 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) and index

Text of Note

Prologue: The path of strangers -- Afrotopia -- Markets and martyrs -- The family romance -- Come, go back, child -- The tribe of the middle passage -- So many dungeons -- The dead book -- Lose your mother -- The dark days -- The famished road -- Blood cowries -- Fugitive dreams

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Text of Note

"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 the fortified 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"--Jacket

Hartman, Saidiya V.-- Travel-- Ghana

Historic sites-- Ghana

Slave trade-- Ghana-- History

Ghana, Description and travel

Ghana, History, Local

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Class number

Book number

Hartman, Saidiya V

Electronic name

[Book]

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