Lose Your Mother - A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

A profound and harrowing meditation by a descendant of slaves who journeyed to Africa to understand her past.

About the author

Saidiya Hartman is a Columbia University professor of English and Comparative Literature. She is the author ofScenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-making in Nineteenth Century America (Oxford University Press,1997) and Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007). In 2019 Hartman was awarded a prestigious MacArthur 'Genius' grant.

Summary

A profound and harrowing meditation by a descendant of slaves who journeyed to Africa to understand her past.

Product details

• Authors: Saidiya Hartman, Hartman Saidiya
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.07.2021
• EAN: 9781788168144
• ISBN: 978-1-78816-814-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / United States / General, HISTORY / African American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), Family history, tracing ancestors, United States of America, USA, Relating to African American people, African History, General and world history, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Black & Asian Studies, Slavery and abolition of slavery, HISTORY / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people