IN THE WAKE: ON BLACKNESS AND BEING General ; Fiction Moses’s National Book Award finalist

Moses’s National Book Award finalist and Coretta Scott King Honoree

is a longtime collaborator

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780061053665

self-discovery

IN THE WAKE: ON BLACKNESS AND BEING General ; Fiction Moses’s National Book Award finalistIn 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