عنوان

In the wake :

(Number (ISBN

082236283X

(Number (ISBN

0822362945

(Number (ISBN

9780822362838

(Number (ISBN

9780822362944

Erroneous ISBN

0822373459

Erroneous ISBN

9780822373452

Title Proper

In the wake :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

on Blackness and being /

First Statement of Responsibility

Christina Sharpe.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Durham :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Duke University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 175 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-162) and index.

Text of Note

The wake -- The ship -- The hold -- The weather.

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Text of Note

"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

Text of Note

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.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

Duke Univ Pr, Attn: Michael Box 90660, Durham, NC, USA, 27708, (919)6885134

Title

In the wake.

International Standard Book Number

9780822373452

African Americans-- Social conditions.

Discrimination in law enforcement-- United States.

Premature death-- Social aspects-- United States.

Racism-- Health aspects-- United States.

Slavery-- United States-- Psychological aspects.

African Americans-- Social conditions.

Discrimination in law enforcement.

Slavery-- Psychological aspects.

United States.

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Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth

Date of Transaction

20200822140550.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

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Electronic name

[Book]

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