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portada Dark Tourist: Essays (21St Century Essays)
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2021
Language
English
Pages
184
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21.3 x 14.0 x 1.5 cm
Weight
0.23 kg.
ISBN13
9780814258125
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Dark Tourist: Essays (21St Century Essays)

Hasanthika Sirisena (Author) · Mad Creek Books · Paperback

Dark Tourist: Essays (21St Century Essays) - Sirisena, Hasanthika

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Synopsis "Dark Tourist: Essays (21St Century Essays) "

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.

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