Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, by Saidiya Hartman
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https://doi.org/10.22475/rebeca.v11n2.902Keywords:
Slavery, Archives, Diaspora, HistoryAbstract
From an immersion in the history of the Atlantic trade of slaves, leaving Ghana for the Americas, Saidiya Hartman tries to fill in the gaps in African, Afro-American and her own family’s history, in a “critical fabulation” built from the silences, the lack of archives and her experience living in Accra, the Ghanaian capital, in the late 1990s. Lose your mother: a journey along the Atlantic slave route investigates the Ghanaian landscape, the Atlantic Ocean and the ruins of the period of slavery as possible archives, reflecting also about the myth of belonging and about being “denied your kin, country, and identity” (p. 108).
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