The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White (Sightline Books)

Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
March 15 2013
EAN: 9781609381608
ISBN: 1609381602

Synopsis: 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. The result is a compelling mediation on identity and representation