{"product_id":"lose-your-mother-a-journey-along-the-atlantic-slave-route-9780374531157","title":"Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLose Your Mother\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, she 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe slave, 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. 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 with figures from the past whose lives were shattered and transformed by the slave trade. Written in prose that is fresh, insightful, and deeply affecting, \u003ci\u003eLose Your Mother \u003c\/i\u003eis a \"landmark text\" (Robin D. G. Kelley, author of \u003ci\u003eFreedom Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Saidiya Hartman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/22\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374531157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/17\/2008 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSaidiya Hartman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eScenes of Subjection\u003c\/i\u003e. She has taught at the University of California at Berkeley and is now a professor at Columbia University. She lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Saidiya Hartman \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47285740306589,"sku":"9780374531157","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_169d08a0-4f67-4c37-9548-507e6384883a.jpg?v=1760009009","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/lose-your-mother-a-journey-along-the-atlantic-slave-route-9780374531157","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}