02605nam 2200589 a 450 991046287990332120200520144314.01-60938-163-7(CKB)2670000000340927(EBL)1112236(OCoLC)831120936(SSID)ssj0000905559(PQKBManifestationID)11448413(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000905559(PQKBWorkID)10926524(PQKB)11359081(MiAaPQ)EBC1112236(OCoLC)828734625(MdBmJHUP)muse25677(Au-PeEL)EBL1112236(CaPaEBR)ebr10649062(EXLCZ)99267000000034092720120801d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe fluency of light[electronic resource] coming of age in a theater of black and white /Aisha Sabatini SloanIowa City, Iowa University of Iowa Press20131 online resource (146 p.)Sightline books : the Iowa series in literary nonfictionDescription based upon print version of record.1-60938-160-2 Includes bibliographical references.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 PermissionsIn 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 existSightline books.Racially mixed people in literatureIdentity (Psychology) in literatureElectronic books.Racially mixed people in literature.Identity (Psychology) in literature.907.2Sabatini Sloan Aisha Elizabeth890344MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462879903321The fluency of light1988938UNINA