{"product_id":"lose-your-mother-anniversary","title":"Lose Your Mother \/\/ A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (20th Anniversary Edition) (Pre-order, Jan 26 2027)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eloquent and original exploration of the Atlantic slave trade—now featuring the essay “Venus in Two Acts” and a new introduction by Dionne Brand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA monumental work of first-person history, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLose Your Mother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e traces the legacy of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey Saidiya Hartman 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 the rippling effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African-American history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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 be uprooted from 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. Instead, she is a stranger in search of strangers, forging connections with others living in the wake of atrocity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA rigorous and intimate reflection on the afterlife of slavery, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLose Your Mother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is both a book of history and a book of grief. This 20th anniversary edition now includes Hartman’s landmark essay “Venus in Two Acts” and a new introduction by Dionne Brand—perfect for introducing new readers to Hartman’s lived-in way of contending with the past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSaidiya Hartman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eScenes of Subjection, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLose Your Mother\u003c\/i\u003e. She was a professor in the Department of English and African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, prior to joining the faculty of Columbia University, where she is currently a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. She received a MacArthur fellowship in 2019. She lives in New York City.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDionne Brand\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the author of numerous volumes of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Her latest poetry collection,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNomenclature: New and Collected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. Her other collections have won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award, and the Trillium Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBread Out of Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging\u003c\/i\u003e. From 2009 to 2012 she served as Toronto’s poet laureate, and in 2021 she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. She lives in Toronto.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Picador\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublish Date: January 26, 2027\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 304\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eType: Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEAN\/UPC: 9781250474049\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e8.3 in H | 5.4 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBISAC Categories: History, Biography \u0026amp; Memoir, Family \u0026amp; Parenting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Saidiya Hartman","offers":[{"title":"(Pre-order, Jan 26 2027) Paperback","offer_id":48814454604011,"sku":"9781250474049","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0253\/4014\/9820\/files\/9781250474049.jpg?v=1786589102","url":"https:\/\/rep.club\/products\/lose-your-mother-anniversary","provider":"Reparations Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}