{"title":"Christina Sharpe","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the insightful works of Christina Sharpe, celebrated for her poignant explorations of Black life, visual culture, and the pervasive effects of history. A compelling voice for our times.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"in-the-wake-book-christina-sharpe-9780822362944","title":"In the Wake","description":"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 consciousness—Sharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of slavery, and she delineates what survives despite such insistent violence and negation. Initiating and describing a theory and method of reading the metaphors and materiality of \"the wake,\" \"the ship,\" \"the hold,\" and \"the weather,\" Sharpe shows how the sign of the slave ship marks and haunts contemporary Black life in the diaspora and how the specter of the hold produces conditions of containment, regulation, and punishment, but also something in excess of them. In the weather, Sharpe situates anti-Blackness and white supremacy as the total climate that produces premature Black death as normative. Formulating the wake and \"wake work\" as sites of artistic production, resistance, consciousness, and possibility for living in diaspora, In the Wake offers a way forward.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49507020144913,"sku":"CIN0822362945VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49730818867473,"sku":"NGR9780822362944","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49797155062033,"sku":"CIN0822362945G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50055352090897,"sku":"GOR009907409","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008548176145,"sku":"NIN9780822362944","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53131060478225,"sku":"GOR012263697","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0822362945.jpg?v=1763479273"},{"product_id":"ordinary-notes-book-christina-sharpe-9781914198144","title":"Ordinary Notes","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49750453289233,"sku":"NGR9781914198144","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49849400525073,"sku":"GOR012959922","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51915643060497,"sku":"CIN191419814XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52705685405969,"sku":"GOR014590218","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":53394419515665,"sku":"CIN191419814XLN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/191419814X.jpg?v=1759228532"},{"product_id":"ordinary-notes-book-christina-sharpe-9780374604486","title":"Ordinary Notes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of 2023 by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, and Barnes and Noble\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe critically acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Wake\u003c\/i\u003e, Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . . . and yet always finds a way to beauty and possibility (Saidiya Hartman).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA singular achievement, \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Notes\u003c\/i\u003e explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the past--public ones alongside others that are poignantly personal--together with present realities and possible futures, intricately constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence. The themes and tones that echo through these pages, sometimes about language, beauty, and memory, sometimes about history, art, photography, and literature, always attend, with exquisite care, to the ordinary-extraordinary dimensions of Black life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the heart of \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Notes\u003c\/i\u003e is the indelible presence of the author's mother, Ida Wright Sharpe. I learned to see in my mother's house, writes Sharpe. I learned how not to see in my mother's house . . . My mother gifted me a love of beauty, a love of words. Using these gifts and other ways of seeing, Sharpe steadily summons a chorus of voices and experiences to the page. She practices an aesthetic of beauty as a method, collects entries from a community of thinkers toward a Dictionary of Untranslatable Blackness, and rigorously examines sites of memory and memorial. And in the process, she forges a brilliant new literary form, as multivalent as the ways of Black being it traces. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eColor art throughout\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49755835531537,"sku":"CIN0374604487G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49888006734097,"sku":"CIN0374604487VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001818808593,"sku":"NIN9780374604486","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374604487.jpg?v=1751166172"},{"product_id":"monstrous-intimacies-book-christina-sharpe-9780822346098","title":"Monstrous Intimacies","description":"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. Her illuminating readings juxtapose Frederick Douglass’s narrative of witnessing the brutal beating of his Aunt Hester with Essie Mae Washington-Williams’s declaration of freedom in Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond, as well as the “generational genital fantasies” depicted in Gayl Jones’s novel Corregidora with a firsthand account of such “monstrous intimacies” in the journals of an antebellum South Carolina senator, slaveholder, and vocal critic of miscegenation. Sharpe explores the South African–born writer Bessie Head’s novel Maru—about race, power, and liberation in Botswana—in light of the history of the KhoiSan woman Saartje Baartman, who was displayed in Europe as the “Hottentot Venus” in the nineteenth century. Reading Isaac Julien’s film The Attendant, Sharpe takes up issues of representation, slavery, and the sadomasochism of everyday black life. Her powerful meditation on intimacy, subjection, and subjectivity culminates in an analysis of Kara Walker’s black silhouettes, and the critiques leveled against both the silhouettes and the artist.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50041544638737,"sku":"CIN0822346095VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50144199672081,"sku":"NGR9780822346098","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008580354321,"sku":"NIN9780822346098","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52951941906705,"sku":"CIN0822346095G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53163396923665,"sku":"GOR009956403","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0822346095.jpg?v=1761387165"},{"product_id":"five-manifestos-for-the-beautiful-world-book-christina-sharpe-9781039055971","title":"Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50326876061969,"sku":"NGR9781039055971","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52621673627921,"sku":"GOR014566086","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1039055974.jpg?v=1750751598"},{"product_id":"ordinary-notes-book-christina-sharpe-9781250872241","title":"Ordinary Notes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction\u0026gt;\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of 2023 by\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u0026gt;\u003c\/i\u003emagazine, \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, and Barnes and Noble\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe critically acclaimed author of\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eIn the Wake\u003c\/i\u003e, Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . . . and yet always finds a way to beauty and possibility (Saidiya Hartman).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA singular achievement, \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Notes\u003c\/i\u003e explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the past--public ones alongside others that are poignantly personal--together with present realities and possible futures, intricately constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence. The themes and tones that echo through these pages, sometimes about language, beauty, and memory, sometimes about history, art, photography, and literature, always attend, with exquisite care, to the ordinary-extraordinary dimensions of Black life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the heart of\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eOrdinary Notes\u003c\/i\u003e is the indelible presence of the author's mother, Ida Wright Sharpe. I learned to see in my mother's house, writes Sharpe. I learned how not to see in my mother's house . . . My mother gifted me a love of beauty, a love of words. Using these gifts and other ways of seeing, Sharpe steadily summons a chorus of voices and experiences to the page. She practices an aesthetic of beauty as a method, collects entries from a community of thinkers toward a Dictionary of Untranslatable Blackness, and rigorously examines sites of memory and memorial. And in the process, she forges a brilliant new literary form, as multivalent as the ways of Black being it traces. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eColor art throughout\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51663935602961,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51663935799569,"sku":"NIN9781250872241","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1250872243.jpg?v=1751017854"},{"product_id":"monstrous-intimacies-book-christina-sharpe-9780822345916","title":"Monstrous Intimacies","description":"Christina Sharpe interprets Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that grapple with the sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation, and their present-day legacies.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740356079889,"sku":"NIN9780822345916","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780822345916.jpg?v=1763482690"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-christina-sharpe.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}