Saidiya Hartman, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (270p) ISBN 978-0374270827
In this rousing narrative, Berkeley professor Hartman traces firsthand the progress of her ancestors—forced migrants from the Gold Coast—in order to illuminate the history of the Atlantic slave trade. Chronicling her time in Ghana following the...
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Saidiya Hartman. Norton, $28.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-28567-3
In this lyrical and novelistic speculative history, Hartman (Lose Your Mother), a Columbia University professor of English and comparative literature, reconstructs the lives of unknown black female urban rebels from the early 20th century, everyday...
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Saidiya Hartman. Norton, $20 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-324-02158-2
MacArthur fellow Hartman (Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments) probes in this innovative critical study, which has been revised and expanded from its original 1997 edition, why emancipation failed to translate into freedom and equality for Black...
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