In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

by Christina Sharpe

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822362945
• ISBN13: 9780822362944
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"