Saidiya Hartman: Lose Your Mother Sports Banger over which he has drawn

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Saidiya Hartman: Lose Your Mother Sports Banger over which he has drawnSerpent's Tail, 2021, softcover, 288 pages, 12. 8 x 19. 8 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