{"id":59827,"date":"2023-02-09T14:55:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T14:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/practice-diaspora-translation-diasporic-literacy-and-afrodiasporic-fluency-conversation-and\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T07:44:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:44:02","slug":"practice-diaspora-translation-diasporic-literacy-and-afrodiasporic-fluency-conversation-and","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/practice-diaspora-translation-diasporic-literacy-and-afrodiasporic-fluency-conversation-and\/","title":{"rendered":"A Practice of Diaspora: Translation, Diasporic Literacy, and Afrodiasporic Fluency, a conversation and readings with Saidiya Hartman and Maboula Soumahoro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0<em>Lose Your Mother<\/em>, 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\u2014provided by publisher. Learn more about\u00a0<em>Lose Your Mother\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780374531157\/loseyourmother\">here<\/a>!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saidiya V. Hartman<\/strong>, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maboula Soumahoro<\/strong>, Mellon International Visiting Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies Department, Columbia University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kaiama L. 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