The fluency of light : coming of age in a theater of black and white / / Aisha Sabatini Sloan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786248803321
• Autore: Sabatini Sloan Aisha Elizabeth
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Iowa City, Iowa : , : University of Iowa Press, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-60938-163-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (146 pages)
• Collana: Sightline books : the Iowa series in literary nonfiction
• Disciplina: 907.2
• Soggetti: Racially mixed people in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; PSYCHOLOGY - Applied Psychology; SELF-HELP - Personal Growth - General; SELF-HELP - Personal Growth - Happiness; SELF-HELP - Personal Growth - Success; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - General
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Birth of the Cool; Fawlanionese; Fade to White; The Strongman and the Clown; Silencing Cassandra; Resolution in Bearing; White Space; Cicatrization; Notes; Acknowledgments and Permissions
• Sommario/riassunto: In these intertwined essays on art, music, and identity, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, the daughter of African American and Italian American parents, examines the experience of her mixed-race identity. Embracing the far-ranging stimuli of her media-obsessed upbringing, she grasps at news clippings, visual fragments, and lyrics from past and present in order to weave together a world of sense.Art in all forms guides the author toward understanding concepts like blackness, jazz, mortality, riots, space, time, self, and other without falling prey to the myth that all things must exist