Ebook {Epub PDF} Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects by Christina Sharpe

Summary. Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, and often sexual violence of slavery has shaped black and white subjectivities from the earliest days of transatlantic slavery to the present, Christina Sharpe interprets Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that address the "monstrous intimacies" imposed by slaveholders on the enslaved. Monstrous Intimacies.: Christina Sharpe. Duke University Press, Sep 7, - Literary Criticism - pages. 0 Reviews. Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and. Christina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University and the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subject. Her research interests are in black visual culture, black diaspora studies, and feminist epistemologies, with a particular emphasis on Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.

Sharpe's beautiful book enacts this indistinctness through pulling language apart and putting it to new purposes." — Hannah Black, 4Columns (Best Books of ) "The book that will live on in me from this year is Christina Sharpe's In the Wake, on living in the wake of the catastrophic violence of legal chattel slavery. Intended for healthcare professionals. 0 Cart. MENU. Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects by Christina Sharpe (Book Review) By: Sarah Cervenak. This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in. Cervenak, S.J. (). Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects, by Christina Sharpe (Book Review). Women's Studies: an Interdisciplinary Journal, 40(8),

Christina Sharpe is a Writer, Professor, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University. She is the author of: In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Duke University Press, )—named by the Guardian and The Walrus as one of the best books of and a nonfiction finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award—and Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (Duke University Press, ). Monstrous Intimacies.: Christina Sharpe. Duke University Press, Sep 7, - Literary Criticism - pages. 0 Reviews. Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and. Summary. Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, and often sexual violence of slavery has shaped black and white subjectivities from the earliest days of transatlantic slavery to the present, Christina Sharpe interprets Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that address the "monstrous intimacies" imposed by slaveholders on the enslaved.