In the wake : on blackness and being
/ Christina Sharpe
- Duke University Press; 2016
- 175p; 23x15cm
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.
English
9780822362944
2016024750
HN50-995 Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform- By region or country. Race identity