Everyone from Jeremy O. Harris to Min Jin Lee to Yaa Gyasi have claimed In the Wake as an influence. Hafizah Augustus Geter traces the ways the seminal work makes waves waves in American culture.
points out that Sharpe’s ideas regarding anti-Blackness as the moral ground of society have become foundational—so widely circulated that Sharpe’s language has spilled over everywhere, even on Twitter. Across our different genres and identities, Sharpe’s analytic—which the writer Sarah Schulman calls “poetry”—demonstrates, Schulman says, that “all approaches are necessary.”
a catalyst for his need to “reimagine Black life as retrievable from and defiant against the abyss of violence in our daily lives, revealing the possibilities of caring for both the living and the dead with nuance, rigor, relentless command.” In Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, the white poet and novelist Ben Lerner and I walk with our elbows brushing, bundled against January’s chill. Built in 1838, in its beginnings, Green-Wood buried Free Black people in plots of land lacking foundation. Eventually, those headstones vanished into soft ground.
The afterlife of slavery lives on through the murder of the Emanuel Nine in Charleston, that same city where so many Africans-turned-slaves were brought in. The afterlife is in the litany, the repetition, the mesothelioma that lay dormant, decades later killing Sharpe’s brother.
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