A Practice of Diaspora: Translation, Diasporic Literacy, and Afrodiasporic Fluency, a conversation and readings with Saidiya Hartman and Maboula Soumahoro

In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she 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 vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African American history—provided by publisher. Learn more about Lose Your Mother here!
Saidiya V. Hartman, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University.
Maboula Soumahoro, Mellon International Visiting Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies Department, Columbia University.
Kaiama L. Glover, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies, Faculty Director of the Digital Humanities Center, Barnard College.
This event is co-sponsored by the Maison Française, French Department, Institut of African Studies, History Department, Anthropology Department, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Africana Studies Department at Barnard. Please click here to learn more about this event.