In the wake : on Blackness and being / Christina Sharpe.
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016Description: 192 pages : illustrationsContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 43842ISBN: 9780822362944 (pbk.) :Subject(s): African Americans -- Social conditions | Racism -- Health aspects -- United States | Premature death -- Social aspects -- United States | Discrimination in law enforcement -- United States | Slavery -- United States -- Psychological aspects | SocietyDDC classification: 305.8 SHA LOC classification: E185.625 | .S53 2016Summary: 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.| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | MAIN LIBRARY Book | 305.8 SHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 29/11/2022 | 113510 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Chapter 1 The Wake (p. 1)
- Chapter 2 The Ship (p. 25)
- Chapter 3 The Hold (p. 68)
- Chapter 4 The Weather (p. 102)
- Notes (p. 135)
- References (p. 153)
- Index (p. 163)
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