In the Wake | Christina Sharpe

#ads Get premium access to stream any unabridged audiobook by starting your free trial:https://mediabooks.space/il-3910/Title: In the Wake Author: Christina Sharpe Narrator: Melanie Nicholls-King Format: mp3 Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins Release date: 02-15-22 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 41 ratings Genres: Cultural & Regional Publisher's Summary: 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.