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In the Wake - On Blackness and Being (Hardcover)
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In the Wake - On Blackness and Being (Hardcover)
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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. Initiating and describing a
theory and method of reading the metaphors and materiality of "the
wake," "the ship," "the hold," and "the weather," Sharpe shows how
the sign of the slave ship marks and haunts contemporary Black life
in the diaspora and how the specter of the hold produces conditions
of containment, regulation, and punishment, but also something in
excess of them. In the weather, Sharpe situates anti-Blackness and
white supremacy as the total climate that produces premature Black
death as normative. Formulating the wake and "wake work" as sites
of artistic production, resistance, consciousness, and possibility
for living in diaspora, In the Wake offers a way forward.
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