In the Wake: On Blackness and Being Kusama and possibility for living in

and possibility for living in diaspora

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In the Wake: On Blackness and Being Kusama and possibility for living inby Christina Sharpe 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 consciousnessSharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of slavery, and she delineates what