TY - BOOK AU - Sharpe, Christina TI - In the wake: : on blackness and being SN - 9780822362944 AV - E185.625.S53 U1 - 305.896'073-- PY - 2016/// PB - Duke University Press; KW - HN50-995 Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform- By region or country. KW - Race identity KW - African American. N2 - 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 ER -