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Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects

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Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects

Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects

Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the present, Christina Sharpe interprets African diasporic and Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that address those “monstrous intimacies” and their repetition as constitutive of post-slavery subjectivity. 

About the Author

Christina Sharpe is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University.

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