In the Wake
On Blackness and Being
Christina Sharpe

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Author(s)

Christina Sharpe

Publication, year

Durham : Duke University, 2017

Scope

192 Pages, illustrated, 22 cm.

Carrier

Book

ISBN

9780822362944

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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.

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Keywords

racism , slavery , black culture -and see also - art movement - black art , indigeneity

Location

Cabinet 29 - 4: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; zwarte kunst en cultuur