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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

Saidiya Hartman
Themes:
IdentitySlaveryAutobiography
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Diaspora

USA

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Contemporary

Language

English

Genre

Memoir

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Hartman's journey to Ghana tracing the slave route and grappling with African-American identity.

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Powerful meditation on slavery's aftermath; MacArthur Fellow

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Hartman's journey to Ghana tracing the slave route and grappling with African-American identity. Powerful meditation on slavery's aftermath; MacArthur Fellow

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