03595nam 2200757 a 450 991078624880332120230803025640.01-60938-163-7(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 0engurcn#---uuuuutxtrdacontentcrdacmediacrrdacarrierThe fluency of light coming of age in a theater of black and white /Aisha Sabatini SloanIowa City, Iowa :University of Iowa Press,2013.1 online resource (146 pages)Sightline books : the Iowa series in literary nonfictionDescription based upon print version of record.Print version: Sabatini Sloan, Aisha Elizabeth. Fluency of light. Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, 2013 (DLC) 2012945879 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.Coming of age in a theater of black and whiteRacially mixed people in literatureIdentity (Psychology) in literaturePSYCHOLOGYApplied PsychologybisacshSELF-HELPPersonal GrowthGeneralbisacshSELF-HELPPersonal GrowthHappinessbisacshSELF-HELPPersonal GrowthSuccessbisacshBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHYGeneralbisacshIdentity (Psychology) in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst00966910Racially mixed people in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst01086603Racially mixed people in literature.Identity (Psychology) in literature.PSYCHOLOGYApplied Psychology.SELF-HELPPersonal GrowthGeneral.SELF-HELPPersonal GrowthHappiness.SELF-HELPPersonal GrowthSuccess.BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHYGeneral.Identity (Psychology) in literature.Racially mixed people in literature.907.2Sabatini Sloan Aisha Elizabeth1552634MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786248803321The fluency of light3812673UNINA