LEADER 03595nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910786248803321 005 20230803025640.0 010 $a1-60938-163-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000340927 035 $a(EBL)1112236 035 $a(OCoLC)831120936 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000905559 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11448413 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000905559 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10926524 035 $a(PQKB)11359081 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1112236 035 $a(OCoLC)828734625 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25677 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1112236 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10649062 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000340927 100 $a20120801d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#---uuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdacmedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe fluency of light $ecoming of age in a theater of black and white /$fAisha Sabatini Sloan 210 1$aIowa City, Iowa :$cUniversity of Iowa Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (146 pages) 225 1 $aSightline books : the Iowa series in literary nonfiction 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$aPrint version: Sabatini Sloan, Aisha Elizabeth. Fluency of light. Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, 2013 (DLC) 2012945879 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aIn these intertwined essays on art, music, and identity, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, the daughter of African American and Italian American parents, examines the experience of her mixed-race identity. Embracing the far-ranging stimuli of her media-obsessed upbringing, she grasps at news clippings, visual fragments, and lyrics from past and present in order to weave together a world of sense.Art in all forms guides the author toward understanding concepts like blackness, jazz, mortality, riots, space, time, self, and other without falling prey to the myth that all things must exist 410 0$aSightline books. 517 3 $aComing of age in a theater of black and white 606 $aRacially mixed people in literature 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature 606 $aPSYCHOLOGY$xApplied Psychology$2bisacsh 606 $aSELF-HELP$xPersonal Growth$xGeneral$2bisacsh 606 $aSELF-HELP$xPersonal Growth$xHappiness$2bisacsh 606 $aSELF-HELP$xPersonal Growth$xSuccess$2bisacsh 606 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY$xGeneral$2bisacsh 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00966910 606 $aRacially mixed people in literature$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01086603 615 0$aRacially mixed people in literature. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. 615 7$aPSYCHOLOGY$xApplied Psychology. 615 7$aSELF-HELP$xPersonal Growth$xGeneral. 615 7$aSELF-HELP$xPersonal Growth$xHappiness. 615 7$aSELF-HELP$xPersonal Growth$xSuccess. 615 7$aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY$xGeneral. 615 7$aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. 615 7$aRacially mixed people in literature. 676 $a907.2 700 $aSabatini Sloan$b Aisha Elizabeth$01552634 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786248803321 996 $aThe fluency of light$93812673 997 $aUNINA