Part 1
1. Cape Coast Castle
Link#1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZKKDnSco8c
Link#2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12rVzpXad7w&feature=related
Link#3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huYfueTz0j8
2. Cultural Heritage Tourism
3. Roots Tourism
4. Symbolic Possession of the Past
Part 2
1. The Price of the Ticket
1) Privilege
2) Identity
3) Expectation
4) Sense of Belonging in the World
5) Understanding the history: forgetting or remembering?
2. What's in a Name
--the word "obruni"
Part 3
What's in a Name
--the word "castle"
Part 4
Performing Memory, Performing Race, Performing Identity
1) Brightness vs. Darkness; White vs. Black
2) Dungeon vs. Gift Shop; Memory vs. Commodity
3) Representation
4) Authority
5) Authenticity
Part 5
1. Photographic Memories
1) Castle vs. Seashore; Horror vs. Beauty
2) the Door of No Return vs. the Door of Return
2. Choosing the perfect Souvenir
the Comment Books: Race, History, Politics, and Commemoration
Part 6
1. No Place Like Home
1) Physical Evidence of Heritage
2) Individual Acts of Performing Memory
(Presenter: Nina Fei Yang)
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I look forward to hearing the class' thoughts on what I found to be a phenomenal book. Her creative non-fiction approach, infused with theory and literary references in addition to massive amounts of historical data, was equally informative as it was poignant. Hartman's experiences in Ghana contrast with the experiences described by Shakur in the heavily Afro-influenced Cuba and the Sierra Leone welcoming depicted in "The Language You Cry In." Given our discussion about romanticization in the last class, I am interested in how Hartman and the Ghanaians she encountered were equally disillusioned with each other - as all a long-lived, far reaching byproduct of the atrocities of the trans Atlantic slave trade. In this way, Hartman's search is for her home, but always she finds herself to be as much of an "obruni" as she felt herself to be in NYC because of a rupture centuries before (and the history of institutionalized oppression that followed).
By reading the book and watching the video,it provided a visual aspect to the story and how afro descendants can feel like a stranger in the land that their ancestors are from. This makes me wonder whether or not Jewish people feel this way about their pilgrimage to Mecca. Even though the video is titled "The Door of (no)Return" that would just be a play on words because the No is in brackets, but its a personal decision to make that pilgrimage back to the motherland in order to understand who you are, your past and what being African means to you. I do believe that the trip should be made by everyone to gain a better understanding and insight into Africa on a personal level. Furthermore, these trips to Africa would dispel the stereotypes of each other as implied in Hartman's book.
by: Jenesha Francis
Hartman’s Lose Your Mother was an interesting account of the author’s journey and research in Ghana. I was particularly interested in this book because I lived in Ghana for six months and had some of the same experiences that Hartman discussed.
The most dominate themes that Hartman convey is the feeling of isolation and a need for Ghana to remember and in a sense take responsibility for the Trans – Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery. Throughout most of the book, Hartman took on a very sarcastic self-centered approach of sharing her experience. At the very end of the book she gains a more holistic view of the experience of the Ghanaian and the African American in the context of the Trans – Atlantic slave trade and slavery.
- Shantala L. Thompson
Hartman’s Lose Your Mother was an interesting account of the author’s journey and research in Ghana. I was particularly interested in this book because I lived in Ghana for six months and had some of the same experiences that Hartman discussed.
The most dominate themes that Hartman convey is the feeling of isolation and a need for Ghana to remember and in a sense take responsibility for the Trans – Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery. Throughout most of the book, Hartman took on a very sarcastic self-centered approach of sharing her experience. At the very end of the book she gains a more holistic view of the experience of the Ghanaian and the African American in the context of the Trans – Atlantic slave trade and slavery.
- Shantala L. Thompson
“Lose your Mother” and “The Door of No Return” were amazing and heartfelt narratives of the Diaspora and current studies of African history. Hartman’s vivid depictions of slave encounters truly moved me and were incredibly authentic. I felt that she portrayed reality of what slavery was all about, from the perspective of the “silent slaves”. It is only through her writings and imagination that we can “experience” what the life of a slave was really like. In addition, Hartman included an unbiased account of the current state of Ghanaians' perception of the slave trade. Many Americans were astonished of the level of indifference the native Ghanaians' displayed towards their own history. Interestingly, the economic state of their country leaves no room for dwelling on history; as Ghanaians' were much more interested in generating a surplus of dividends in their economy by facilitating tourism. Prior to reading the book, I had no idea that internal slave trading occurred. I wonder whether Ghanaians' chose to forget the past because of current economic struggles or because of shame of the role Africans had in the slave trade. The book was a vivid, truthful, holistic account of the separation and loneliness that occurred subsequent to slavery.
Chisara Nicholls
While reading Lose Your Mother, Hartman continually expresses a disconnection between Africans and African Americans. She also seems to have expected to be embraced by the people of Ghana as if she were their long lost cousin. I found this feeling to be a bit naïve and I would not have expected such an educated woman to feel that way.
I am anxiously awaiting the discussion of both the book, "Lose Your Mother" And Cheryl Finley's work. The question that sticks out to me most is if there is a "home" for those of the diaspora to return to?
To piggy back off of Chisara's blog, what moved me the most from "The Door of No Return" was the concept of slave trade from a Ghanian's point of view vs. African American. I guess it all depends on what side of the map you live on and what kind of history is portrayed to you. Living in Ghana their entire life, slave trade is probably not something they constantly want to recall, on the contrary they rather forget and move on, rebuild a new identity. As opposed to African American's who would rather pay tribute to a lost identity. I found this distinction between the two worlds interesting as I cannot help but recall my own pilgrimage to my country of ethnic origin and feeling similar to the African American tourist described in the article. I wonder if this distinction caught the interest of anyone else?
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