03018oam 22005774 450 991013666790332120220201160122.00-8223-7345-910.1515/9780822373452(CKB)3710000000907462(MiAaPQ)EBC4717126(OCoLC)1141663324(MdBmJHUP)muse80182958396052(DE-B1597)552952(DE-B1597)9780822373452(OCoLC)1224279005(EXLCZ)99371000000090746220160914d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierIn the wake on Blackness and being /Christina SharpeDurham :Duke University Press,2016.1 online resource (188 pages)0-8223-6294-5 0-8223-6283-X Includes bibliographical references and index.The wake -- The ship -- The hold -- The weather.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.African AmericansSocial conditionsRacismHealth aspectsUnited StatesPremature deathSocial aspectsUnited StatesDiscrimination in law enforcementUnited StatesSlaveryUnited StatesPsychological aspectsElectronic books.African AmericansSocial conditions.RacismHealth aspectsPremature deathSocial aspectsDiscrimination in law enforcementSlaveryPsychological aspects.305.896/073Sharpe Christina Elizabeth1071323NDDNDDBOOK9910136667903321In the wake2566807UNINA