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The Fluency of Light. Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White.
Aisha Sabatini Sloan
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Paperback. Num Pages: 130 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
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 within a system of binaries. Recalling her awkward attempts at ... Read more
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 within a system of binaries. Recalling her awkward attempts at ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Iowa Press United States
Number of pages
130
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781609381608
SKU
V9781609381608
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