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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (20th Anniversary Edition)

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (20th Anniversary Edition)

Hartman, Saidiya
Brand, Dionne

Paperback

Biographies GeneralAfrican History

Publisher Price: $19.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 26, 2027

ISBN10: 1250474043
ISBN13: 9781250474049
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Jan 26 2027
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.25
Language: English

An eloquent and original exploration of the Atlantic slave trade--now featuring the essay Venus in Two Acts and a new introduction by Dionne Brand.

A monumental work of first-person history, Lose Your Mother traces the legacy of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey Saidiya Hartman 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 the rippling effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African-American history.

The slave, Hartman observes, is a stranger--torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to be uprooted from your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider. There are no known survivors of Hartman's lineage, no relatives in Ghana whom she came hoping to find. Instead, she is a stranger in search of strangers, forging connections with others living in the wake of atrocity.

A rigorous and intimate reflection on the afterlife of slavery, Lose Your Mother is both a book of history and a book of grief. This 20th anniversary edition now includes Hartman's landmark essay Venus in Two Acts and a new introduction by Dionne Brand--perfect for introducing new readers to Hartman's lived-in way of contending with the past.

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