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Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects
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.
Christina Sharpe is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University.
Other publications from this author include:
- Ordinary Notes (2022)
- "The Crook of Her Arm" (2017)
- "Love Is the Message" in Love is the Message, the Message is Death (2016)
- In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016)
- "Three Scenes" in On Marronage: Ethical Confrontations with Anti-Blackness (2015)
- "Black Studies: in the Wake" The Black Scholar, Special Issue, The Boundaries of Black Studies (2014)
- "The Lie at the Center of Everything" in Black Studies Papers (2014)
- "Response to Jared Sexton's "Ante-Anti-Blackness: Afterthoughts" for Lateral (inaugural issue of online, peer reviewed E-journal of the Cultural Studies Association) (2012)
- "Gayl Jones' 'Days that were Pages of Hysteria.'" in Revisiting Slave Narratives / Les avatars contemporains des récits d'esclaves, 159-176 (2005)
- "Learning to Live Without Black Familia: Cherríe Moraga's Nationalist Articulations" in Tortilleras: Hispanic and Latina Lesbian Expression, 240-257 (2003)
- "The Costs of Re-membering: What's at Stake in Gayl Jones's Corregidora" in African American Performance and Theatre History: A Critical Reader, 306-327 (2000)