Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Abstract

Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being Duke University Press, 2016. Pp. 192. ISBN: 978-0-8223-6294-4 Christine Okoth Christina Sharpe’s 2016 In the Wake: On Blackness and Being joins other recent publications in the field of Black Studies in combining visual, literary, and theoretical archives to describe the contemporary condition of Black life and death. In doing so, Sharpe moves gracefully between vastly disparate geographical and cultural sites to reconstruct a theoretical...