{"product_id":"in-the-wake-on-blackness-and-being-paperback","title":"In the Wake: On Blackness and Being - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristina Sharpe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eIn the Wake\u003c\/i\u003e offers a way forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University and the author of \u003ci\u003eMonstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53337028198765,"sku":"9780822362944","price":35.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/WEhPSUZMS0E2NzY5aEtVZGRKZkZaUT09.webp?v=1778922885","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/in-the-wake-on-blackness-and-being-paperback","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}