Daughters of the Dust is narrated by Eula Peazant's unborn child. In her book Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman likewise approaches her family's history relative to slavery and passage as someone born into a later generation. Use Hartman's account of her journey and Stuart Hall's concept of representation as not a "measurement of the gap" between truth and image but as a "leaving open" and "contestation" over meaning. How is "the circle of meaning" negotiated and contested in Daughters of the Dust? How do these meanings forge different stories, different experiences of identity for members of the same family within and across generations?