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In lose your mother, saidiya hartman journeys along a slave route in ghana, following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the atlantic coast. A journey along the atlantic slave route, she returns to ghana to do research, but instead finds personal transformation. Saidiya hartman is professor of english and comparative literature at columbia university. Lose your mother the phrase lose your mother refers to the practice of instructing newly captured slaves to let go of the past, to forget who they are. Jan 23, 2007 in hartmans new book, lose your mother. Elmina castle, for example, is no mere footnote, but an intricate.
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