In the wake : on blackness and being / Christina Sharpe

By:

Sharpe, Christina

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Duke University Press; 2016Description: 175p; 23x15cmISBN:

9780822362944

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.896'073-- dc23

LOC classification:

E185.625.S53

Summary: Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"―the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to consciousness―Sharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of slavery, and she delineates what survives despite such insistent violence and negation.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	SAF Reference Library	Social Sciences	HN50-995 14.56 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		3971

Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"―the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to consciousness―Sharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of slavery, and she delineates what survives despite such insistent violence and negation.

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