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Digital Library Of Georgia (March 2023), Mandy L. Mastrovita, Donnie S. Summerlin, Daniel Britt
Digital Library Of Georgia (March 2023), Mandy L. Mastrovita, Donnie S. Summerlin, Daniel Britt
Georgia Library Quarterly
News from the Digital Library of Georgia for the first quarter (January-March) of 2023
Archiving Blackness: Reimagining And Recreating The Archive(S) As Literary And Information Wake Work, Jamillah R. Gabriel
Archiving Blackness: Reimagining And Recreating The Archive(S) As Literary And Information Wake Work, Jamillah R. Gabriel
Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies
“…we, Black people everywhere and anywhere we are, still produce in, into, and through the wake an insistence on existing: we insist Black being into the wake.”
– Christina Sharpe, In the Wake (2016)
In this paper, I introduce Christina Sharpe’s conceptualizations of wake and wake work, as they pertain to archiving the experiences of Blackness to better understand how the archive and archives are vital for those living and working in the wake of slavery. I am particularly interested in the wake work conducted both in literary works (speculative fiction) and at information sites (archives). To that end, …