In the Wake - On Blackness and Being

Informationen zum Autor Christina Sharpe Klappentext Christina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University and the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects, also published by Duke University Press. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Wake  1 2. The Ship  25 3. The Hold  68 4. The Weather  102 Notes  135 References  153 Index  163

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Christina Sharpe

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• Authors: Christina Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth Sharpe
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9780822362838
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6283-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore