Christina Sharpe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3922378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christina Sharpe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christina |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharpe |
| SIGNATURE | SHARPE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Security Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Shapes of Grief. Witnessing the unbearable
The essay «The Shapes of Grief. Witnessing the Unbearable» was originally published in volume 112, No. 3 of The Yale Review, September 9, 2024. We are deeply grateful to the author for allowing us to make this translation and to the artist Joumana Medlej for sharing her work with us
Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return at 20: A Gathering
You don’t have revolution without sound’: A Conversation between Christina Sharpe, Françoise Vergès and K’eguro Macharia
And to Survive
Christina Sharpe responds to engagements with In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Régine Jean-Charles, Rinaldo Walcott, and Tezeru Teshome (with K. Wayne Yang). In her response to their questions and elaborations around voice, freedom, resistance, and subjectivity, Sharpe reprises her discussion of an ordinary note of care and her readings of some of the images of black girls and women that appeared in In the Wake. Sharpe then expands her atte…
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
Black Studies: In the Wake
Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects
In *Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects*, Christina Sharpe theorizes the afterlife of slavery as a condition she terms "wake": the ongoing state of Black subjection to anti-Black violence and the haunting presence of the past. Sharpe argues that this "wake" shapes contemporary Black life in profound ways, influencing everything from social structures and political discourse to cultural production and personal experience. Drawing on…
Racialized Fantasies on the Internet
Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects
In *Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects*, Christina Sharpe theorizes the afterlife of slavery as a condition she terms "wake": the ongoing state of Black subjection to anti-Black violence and the haunting presence of the past. Sharpe argues that this "wake" shapes contemporary Black life in profound ways, influencing everything from social structures and political discourse to cultural production and personal experience. Drawing on…
Black Studies: In the Wake
And to Survive
Christina Sharpe responds to engagements with In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Régine Jean-Charles, Rinaldo Walcott, and Tezeru Teshome (with K. Wayne Yang). In her response to their questions and elaborations around voice, freedom, resistance, and subjectivity, Sharpe reprises her discussion of an ordinary note of care and her readings of some of the images of black girls and women that appeared in In the Wake. Sharpe then expands her atte…
Racialized Fantasies on the Internet
Racialized Fantasies on the Internet
Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects
In *Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects*, Christina Sharpe theorizes the afterlife of slavery as a condition she terms "wake": the ongoing state of Black subjection to anti-Black violence and the haunting presence of the past. Sharpe argues that this "wake" shapes contemporary Black life in profound ways, influencing everything from social structures and political discourse to cultural production and personal experience. Drawing on…
Black Studies: In the Wake
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
And to Survive
Christina Sharpe responds to engagements with In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Régine Jean-Charles, Rinaldo Walcott, and Tezeru Teshome (with K. Wayne Yang). In her response to their questions and elaborations around voice, freedom, resistance, and subjectivity, Sharpe reprises her discussion of an ordinary note of care and her readings of some of the images of black girls and women that appeared in In the Wake. Sharpe then expands her atte…
Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return at 20: A Gathering
You don’t have revolution without sound’: A Conversation between Christina Sharpe, Françoise Vergès and K’eguro Macharia
The Shapes of Grief. Witnessing the unbearable
The essay «The Shapes of Grief. Witnessing the Unbearable» was originally published in volume 112, No. 3 of The Yale Review, September 9, 2024. We are deeply grateful to the author for allowing us to make this translation and to the artist Joumana Medlej for sharing her work with us
Art (5 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Physics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works) · Social conditions (2 works)