Dark Tourist (eBook)

Essays

Hasanthika Sirisena (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
184 Seiten
Ohio State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8142-8168-0 (ISBN)

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Finalist for the 2022 LAMBDA literary award in bisexual nonfiction Winner of the 2021 Gournay Prize "e;Shimmers with honesty, vulnerability, and circumspection."e; -Kirkus "e;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."e; -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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.12.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 0-8142-8168-0 / 0814281680
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8142-8168-0 / 9780814281680