Sharpe, Christina
In the Wake: On Blackness And Being
- ISBN 13:
- 9780822362944
- author:
- Sharpe, Christina
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Duke University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2016
- Pages:
- 188
- Dimensions:
- 15.2 x 1.2 x 22.9 cm
- Genre:
- History, Americas, United States, United States,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Christina Sharpe's In the Wake offers a powerful analysis of how Black lives are shaped by the afterlives of slavery. Through a multidisciplinary approach, she examines literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life, revealing how these narratives continue to haunt contemporary Black existence. Sharpe identifies the "wake" - the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to consciousness - as a site where Black lives are both marked and animated by the afterlives of slavery. Her work delves into the metaphors and materiality of this concept, exploring how it produces conditions of containment, regulation, and punishment, yet also reveals possibilities for living in diaspora. By situating anti-Blackness and white supremacy as the total climate that produces premature Black death, Sharpe formulates a new way forward. In the Wake is a thought-provoking work that invites readers to consider the ongoing impact of slavery's legacy on Black lives today.
Related Products
Related Products
Being Myself
Spira, Rupert
Being and Time
Schmidt, Dennis J.
The Wake
Paul Kingsnorth
Being With Horses
Cook, Nahshon
Being a Chaplain
ThrelfallHolmes, Miranda