The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White - Paperback

by Aisha Sabatini Sloan (Author)

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

Author Biography

Aisha Sabatini Sloan earned her MA in cultural studies and studio art at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and her MFA in creative writing at the University of Arizona. She taught writing at the University of Arizona for six years and is currently studying to become a yoga instructor.