Description
Product ID: | 9780822362944 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | In the Wake |
Subtitle: | On Blackness and Being |
Authors: | Author: Christina Sharpe |
Page Count: | 192 |
Subjects: | Literary studies: general, Literary studies: general, Social and cultural history, Social discrimination and social justice, Ethnic studies, Social & cultural history, Social discrimination & inequality, Black & Asian studies, USA, English |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
Imprint Name: | Duke University Press |
Publisher Name: | Duke University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2016-11-14 |