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Author Zwartjes, Arianne, author.

Title These dark skies : reckoning with identity, violence, and power from abroad / Arianne Zwartjes
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 265 pages)
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- Chapter One. Choreographies -- Chapter Two. A Wild Blossoming Red -- Chapter Three. The Bent of Light -- Chapter Four. Notes on Bewilderment -- Chapter Five. Cities of Broken Teeth, Cities of Dust and Blood -- Chapter Six. The Psychology of Violence -- Chapter Seven. Blood Sugar -- Chapter Eight. Strangers in the Village -- Chapter Nine. A World Without Lines -- Chapter Ten. Seeking Refuge -- Chapter Eleven. American Innocence -- Chapter Twelve. Black Squares and Summer Storms -- Chapter Thirteen. Radical Hope -- Notes -- Acknowledgments
Summary "These Dark Skies is semi-lyrical, mixing personal narrative with arts commentary and research on constructions of identity, race, power, migration, and violence. The book follows the trajectory of a year of living in the southern Netherlands, watching the refugee crisis unfold across Europe, and feeling deeply the geographic proximity of the disaster. The two primary narrative threads running through the entire book are the experience of living in Europe-mixed with the narrative of Zwartjes' relationship with her wife, who is Russian-and the unfolding of both the refugee crisis and the uptick in terrorist acts in France, Greece, Austria, Germany, the Balkans, etc. As it moves through this story, the writer seeks to probe her own subjectivity, as a white American, as a queer woman in a transcultural marriage, as a writer and a witness"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 11, 2022)
Subject Zwartjes, Arianne.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Violence -- Social aspects
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
National characteristics -- Social aspects
Social integration.
Social Integration
identity.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Social integration.
Violence -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form essays.
Essays.
Essays.
Essais.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021050715
ISBN 9781609388423
1609388429