Compartir
Dark Tourist: Essays (21St Century Essays) (en Inglés)
Hasanthika Sirisena
(Autor)
·
Mad Creek Books
· Tapa Blanda
Dark Tourist: Essays (21St Century Essays) (en Inglés) - Sirisena, Hasanthika
Libro Nuevo
Importado
Envío: 17 a 23 días háb.
$ 183.721$ 91.861
Costos de importación incluídos en el precio ✅
Reseña del libro "Dark Tourist: Essays (21St Century Essays) (en Inglés)"
Finalist for the 2022 LAMBDA literary award in bisexual nonfictionWinner of the 2021 Gournay Prize"Shimmers with honesty, vulnerability, and circumspection." --Kirkus "Sirisena explores how stories can become a 'talisman against the overwhelming darkness of another's pain' in her emotionally charged nonfiction debut ... [Her] searching spirit leaves readers with plenty to dig into." --Publishers Weekly Dark tourism--visiting sites of war, violence, and other traumas experienced by others--takes different forms in Hasanthika Sirisena's stunning excavation of the unexpected places (and ways) in which personal identity and the riptides of history meet. The 1961 plane crash that left a nuclear warhead buried near her North Carolina hometown, juxtaposed with reflections on her father's stroke. A visit to Jaffna in Sri Lanka--the country of her birth, yet where she is unmistakably a foreigner--to view sites from the recent civil war, already layered over with the narratives of the victors. A fraught memory of her time as a young art student in Chicago that is uneasily foundational to her bisexual, queer identity today. The ways that life-changing impairments following a severe eye injury have shaped her thinking about disability and self-worth. Deftly blending reportage, cultural criticism, and memoir, Sirisena pieces together facets of her own sometimes-fractured self to find wider resonances with the human universals of love, sex, family, and art--and with language's ability to both fail and save us. Dark Tourist becomes then about finding a home, if not in the world, at least within the limitless expanse of the page.
- 0% (0)
- 0% (0)
- 0% (0)
- 0% (0)
- 0% (0)
Todos los libros de nuestro catálogo son Originales.
El libro está escrito en Inglés.
La encuadernación de esta edición es Tapa Blanda.
✓ Producto agregado correctamente al carro, Ir a Pagar.
