| Description |
1 online resource (138 pages). |
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Sightline books : the Iowa series in literary nonfiction |
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Sightline books.
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| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Racially mixed people in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Applied Psychology.
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SELF-HELP -- Personal Growth -- General.
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SELF-HELP -- Personal Growth -- Happiness.
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SELF-HELP -- Personal Growth -- Success.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature. (OCoLC)fst00966910
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Racially mixed people in literature. (OCoLC)fst01086603
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sabatini Sloan, Aisha Elizabeth. Fluency of light. Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, 2013 (DLC) 2012945879 |
| ISBN |
9781609381639 (electronic bk.) |
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1609381637 (electronic bk.) |
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