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In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Christina Sharpe

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.
Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture

Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture

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Notable here is Christina Sharpe's provocative account of slavery's Middle Passage as the forgotten space at the heart of The Forgotten Space. See Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham: Duke University Press, ...
Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects

Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects

Christina Sharpe

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 ...
Geldenhuys Genealogy, Descendants of Albert Barends Gildenhuizen

Geldenhuys Genealogy, Descendants of Albert Barends Gildenhuizen

Preller Geldenhuys

... 374 Christina Berlina Geertruyda (1838-), 368 Christina Elizabeth (1838-), 366, 368 Christina Elizabeth Cornelia (1872-), 378 Christina Francina Johanna (1831- ), 356 Christina Geertruyda (1769-), 346 Christina Geertruyda Maria (1813-), ...
The Art Of Making Time For Yourself: A Collection Of Advice ...

The Art Of Making Time For Yourself: A Collection Of Advice ...

Christina Katz

Books & Workbooks By Christina Katz Creative Knowing, 50 Selfreflection Questions For Women (2014, Christina Katz Media) Discover Your Platform Potential, A Get Known Before The Book Deal Workbook (2012, Christina Katz Media) Get ...
Christina Aguilera

Christina Aguilera

Margaret R. Mead

... wantedthem to be proudofall aspects of who they were," Shellywroteon Christina's Website,as quoted by Pier Dominguez in his2003book ChristinaAguilera: AStar Is Made: The Unauthorized Biography. Christina' searlychildhood ...
Christina of Markyate: A Twelfth-century Holy Woman

Christina of Markyate: A Twelfth-century Holy Woman

Samuel Fanous

Beautifully illustrated, this book provides students who regularly encounter Christina with a research compendium from which to begin their studies, and introduces Christina to a wider audience.
Black Knowledges/Black Struggles: Essays in Critical ...

Black Knowledges/Black Struggles: Essays in Critical ...

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One is left in mourning, with being in a non-ending wake, to paraphrase Christina Sharpe. Having to face the publicly ritualized Black dying made fungible for politicians, media, and institutions, we want to acknowledge here the analytic acuity ...
Zizek and Politics: A Critical Introduction

Zizek and Politics: A Critical Introduction

Matthew Sharpe

The Antinomies of Žižek's Sociopolitical Reason', in Matthew Sharpe, Geoff Boucher and Jason Glynos (eds), Traversing the Fantasy: Critical Responses to Slavoj Žižek. London: Ashgate, pp. 147–68. Sharpe, Matthew (2007). 'De Maistre  ...
Red Pulp: Repression and Radicalism in Mid-twentieth Century ...

Red Pulp: Repression and Radicalism in Mid-twentieth Century ...

Joseph G. Ramsey

First I must thank my dissertation committee: Modhumita Roy, Alan Wald, Jay Cantor, and Christina Sharpe. Modhumita's bold political and critical perspectives , inside and outside the seminar room, as well as her great generosity—in ...
Rooting Memory, Rooting Place: Regionalism in the ...

Rooting Memory, Rooting Place: Regionalism in the ...

C. Lloyd

Christina Sharpe calls this the “fuliginous stain”: “residual blackness, blackness that won't be erased,” “blackness that illuminates what is otherwise unreadable, unseeable.”89 Patricia Yaeger consolidates this, arguing that the notion of “white  ...
Christina's Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from A Northwest ...

Christina's Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from A Northwest ...

Christina Orchid

Deeply evocative of the San Juan Islands, the recipes and ingredients of Christina's Cookbook give readers a flavorful tour through all of the area's eddies, bays, and gardens.
Christina Aguilera: A Star is Made : the Unauthorized Biography

Christina Aguilera: A Star is Made : the Unauthorized Biography

Pier Dominguez

After she had saved enough money to finance her trip, Shelly fled with Christina and her barely one- year-old sister Rachel. They drove to the middle-class Pittsburgh suburb of Wexford. After the divorce, Christina lost absolutely all contact with ...
Christina Stead

Christina Stead

Diana Brydon

Christina Stead, 'A Writer's Friends', Southerly, vol. 28, no. 3 (1968), p. 163. For the biographical information that follows, I rely on Stead's articles and interviews, on John Beston, 'A Brief Biography of Christina Stead', World Literature Written in  ...
Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas: A ...

Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas: A ...

Christina K. Schaefer

A Complete Digest of the Records of All the Countries of the Western Hemisphere Christina K. Schaefer ... diversity of the records, this is hardly surprising; and yet the creation of such a source is precisely the task Christina Schaefer set herself.
The Works of Christina Rossetti

The Works of Christina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti. to stand alone' (p. 245), resisting and challenging both the pressures of the marriage market and contemporary sexual ideology. Yet 'A Triad', which suggests the dangers of self-sacrifice as well as the temptations ...
Permission Granted: 45 Reasons To Micro-publish

Permission Granted: 45 Reasons To Micro-publish

Christina Katz

Christina Katz is a writing career coach who develops educational training materials writers can use to find their unique paths and thrive as creative businesspeople. Christina provides practical, helpful training tools for individuals, groups, and ...
Sleuthing the Divine: The Nexus of Science and Spirit

Sleuthing the Divine: The Nexus of Science and Spirit

Kevin Sharpe

Sharpe, a leader in the field, engagingly seeks the reality of God in the world, even as he eschews traditional theological terms and authorities.
Living Life Beautifully

Living Life Beautifully

Christina Strutt

Living Life Beautifully tells the story of how Christina founded legendary fabric company Cabbages & Roses and grew it into a lifestyle brand. Christina talks about her inspirations and influences, and how she works these into her products.
Write For Regional Parenting Publications For Fun & Profit: ...

Write For Regional Parenting Publications For Fun & Profit: ...

Christina Katz

Christina Katz is a writing professional who develops educational training materials that every writer can use to find his or her unique path for creative growth and thrive as a creative businessperson. Christina provides practical, helpful training ...
Blott On The Landscape

Blott On The Landscape

Tom Sharpe

Tom Sharpe's comedy lies as much in his language and the pace of the dialogue as in the outrageous muddles and confusions of his comic situations' The Times 'This exuberant novel will cheer all those who dislike bureaucracy' Daily Telegraph ...
Friedrich Schiller: Drama, Thought and Politics

Friedrich Schiller: Drama, Thought and Politics

Lesley Sharpe

Lesley Sharpe assesses Schiller's development as a dramatist, poet and thinker against the background of his life.
You Were Wrong: A Novel

You Were Wrong: A Novel

Matthew Sharpe

Matthew Sharpe addresses his heady themes with warmth and charisma. You Were Wrong is a lovingly satiric, intelligent, and deeply enjoyable novel with a voice all its own.
Remember, Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day

Remember, Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day

J. A. Sharpe

James Sharpe teases apart the tangled web of religion and politics that gave rise to the plot and wittily shows how celebration of that fateful night has changed over the centuries.
The Gropes

The Gropes

Tom Sharpe

'This is a romp with many of the staples of Sharpe's bestselling comedy' Daily Mail 'The funniest novelist writing today' The Times 'An immense gift for social satire ... the action is unflagging' Daily Telegraph 'A major craftsman in the ...
Indecent Exposure

Indecent Exposure

Tom Sharpe

'Explosively funny, fiendishly inventive' Sunday Times 'What clinches the novel's success is Mr Sharpe's brilliant comic style. his phrasing, his timing, and his extraordinarily deft handling of the minutiae of comic incidents make for real ...
Schiller's Aesthetic Essays: Two Centuries of Criticism

Schiller's Aesthetic Essays: Two Centuries of Criticism

Lesley Sharpe

He sums up the eighteenth century while anticipating modern ideas; his notions of the naive and the sentimental, of art as play, and of beauty as semblance, have had a lasting impact on aesthetic speculation.Dr Sharpe's book is the first ...
Grantchester Grind: (Porterhouse Blue Series 2)

Grantchester Grind: (Porterhouse Blue Series 2)

Tom Sharpe

'The best of British farce-masters is back' Mail on Sunday 'Has all the ingredients of a classic Sharpe novel - grotesque characters, outlandish plot, scabrous dialogue' The Times 'Dynamic, fertile, knockabout energy' Evening Standard 'A ...
Promise Of Hunters Ridge

Promise Of Hunters Ridge

Sarah Barrie

He thought about that as what was left of Cathy Sharpe was zipped inside a body bag. 'I want to talk to the housemate.' At six o'clock he went to the gym. After spending most of the day working on Cathy Sharpe's murder, Ben needed to work ...
Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, ...

Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, ...

Kevin Sharpe

In the climactic part of his three-book series exploring the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, Kevin Sharpe employs a remarkable interdisciplinary approach that draws on literary studies and art history as well ...

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