In the Wake

On Blackness and Being

Sharpe, Christina

Duke University Press, 2016

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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.

ISBN-13
9780822362944
ISBN-10
0822362945
Publisher
Duke University Press
Year
2016
Publication date
2016-11-14
Pages
192
Dimensions
229 x 155 x 14
Weight
290