In the Wake
On Blackness and Being
1st Edition
Published on 13. October 2016
192 pages
978-0-8223-7345-2 (ISBN)
Description
Using the multiple meanings of "wake" to illustrate the ways Black lives are determined by slavery's afterlives, Christina Sharpe weaves personal experiences with readings of literary and artistic representations of Black life and death to examine what survives in the face of insistent violence and the possibilities for resistance.
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Christina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University and the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects, also published by Duke University Press.
Content
1. The Wake 1
2. The Ship 25
3. The Hold 68
4. The Weather 102
Notes 135
References 153
Index 163
2. The Ship 25
3. The Hold 68
4. The Weather 102
Notes 135
References 153
Index 163
