Christina Sharpe

Broschiertes Buch

In the Wake

On Blackness and Being

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780822362944
• ISBN-10: 0822362945
• Artikelnr.: 44603105