In the Wake // On Blackness and Being
• Duke University Press • ISBN 9780822362944
In the Wake // On Blackness and Being
• Duke University Press • ISBN-13 9780822362944
ISBN-10 0822362945 • 2016
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ISBN 9780822362944 • Completeness 51
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In this original and trenchant work, 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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