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BL
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847187
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Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth
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| Title & Author
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In the wake : : on Blackness and being /\ Christina Sharpe.
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| Publication Statement
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Durham :: Duke University Press,, 2016.
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xi, 175 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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082236283X
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: 0822362945
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: 9780822362838
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: 9780822362944
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0822373459
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9780822373452
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-162) and index.
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| Contents
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The wake -- The ship -- The hold -- The weather.
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| Abstract
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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." -- Publisher's description
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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.
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African Americans-- Social conditions.
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Discrimination in law enforcement-- United States.
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Premature death-- Social aspects-- United States.
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Racism-- Health aspects-- United States.
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Slavery-- United States-- Psychological aspects.
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African Americans-- Social conditions.
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Discrimination in law enforcement.
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Slavery-- Psychological aspects.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.896/073
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| LC Classification
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E185.625.S53 2016
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