Archive for the ‘Saidiya Hartman’ Category

On February 28, 2008, Harvard University Press will release Vincent Brown’s The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery. What are people saying? From the HUP website: Vincent Brown makes the dead talk. With his deep learning and powerful historical imagination, he calls upon the departed to explain the living. The [...]

“And history is how the secular world attends to the dead.” –Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother I’ve finished one of the six books on my winter break reading list: Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route. I received this book from A.K.F. to inspire me to finish my comprehensive exams. [...]





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