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Christina Sharpe

"Gayl Jones' 'Days that were Pages of Hysteria.'" in Revisiting Slave Narratives / Les avatars contemporains des récits d'esclaves, 159-176

This collection offers a follow up to the first collection of essays Revisiting Slave Narratives / Les Avatars des récits d'esclaves (2005), whose purpose was to bring together African-merican and Caribbean neo-slave novels. In 2007, the year of the bicentennial anniversary of the official abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in the British colonial Empire, the […]

"Black Studies: in the Wake" The Black Scholar, Special Issue, The Boundaries of Black Studies

Sharpe details the intellectual work of a continued reckoning the longue duree of Atlantic chattel slavery with black fungibility, antiblackness, and the gratuitous violence that structures black being, of accounting for the narrative, historical, structural, and other positions black people are forced to occupy. Living in the wake as people of African descent means living […]