What can we learn from Saidiya Hartman’s Lose your Mother and Heonick Kwon’s Ghosts of War in Vietnam (at least one of them), which may help us come to terms with this difficult reality?

4) Suddenly and close to home, due to the pandemic, we are confronted with the reality of collective death, mass graves, and the inability to properly mourn. What can we learn from Saidiya Hartman’s Lose your Mother and Heonick Kwon’s Ghosts of War in Vietnam (at least one of them), which may help us come to terms with this difficult reality?