“Every generation confronts the task of choosing its past. Inheritances are chosen as much as they are passed on. The past depends less on 'what happened then' than on the desires and discontents of the present. Strivings and failures shape… — Saidiya V. Hartman Copy Share Image
“If I had hoped to skirt the sense of being a stranger in the world by coming to Ghana, then disappointment awaited me. And I had suspected as much before I arrived. Being a stranger concerns not only matters of… — Saidiya V. Hartman Copy Share Image
“Every generation confronts the task of choosing its past. Inheritances are chosen as much as they are passed on. The past depends less on… — Saidiya V. Hartman Copy Share Image
“If I had hoped to skirt the sense of being a stranger in the world by coming to Ghana, then disappointment awaited me. And… — Saidiya V. Hartman Copy Share Image
