![]() Cooper’s approach is to utilize the practice of listing. Cooper offers a sympathetic rejoinder to Hartman’s investigation of what it means to be the contemporaries of the enslaved, and what it means to theorize: to produce a living history by a loving engagement in, with, and through the body. ![]() Cooper’s Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women. The same sentiment is echoed in Brittney C. Hartman’s project in Lose Your Mother is a search for a life beyond the archive it is a search for a living narrative, written on, in, and by the body-an act of re-membering. ![]() ![]() These words are the only defense of her existence, the only barrier against her disappearance”. In chapter 7 of her 2008 book, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, Saidiya Hartman writes, “I too am trying to save the girl, not from death or sickness or a tyrant but from oblivion. ![]()
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