Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
Saidiya Hartman
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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.
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Praise for Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
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'An original, thought-provoking meditation on the corrosive legacy of slavery ... driven by this writer's prodigious narrative gifts.' - The New York Times'One of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers ... She's a theorist and writer who actually changes what's possible in mythought patterns''This is a memoir about loss, alienation, and estrangement, but also, ultimately, about the power of art to remember ... A magnificent achievement.'By addressing gaps and omissions in accounts of trans-Atlantic slavery ... Hartman has influenced an entire generation of scholars and afforded readers a proximity to the past that would otherwise be foreclosed.'
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