# In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

“In the Wake: On Blackness and Being” (2016), by Christina Sharpe. Social Sciences research paper. Original abstract below, unchanged. No free PDF was found.

- Authors: Christina Sharpe
- Published: October 13, 2016
- Field: Social Sciences
- Source: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/4/monograph/book/69540

## Abstract

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

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