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Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit : essays / Aisha Sabatini Sloan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sabatini Sloan, Aisha, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnic groups--United States--21st century.
- Ethnic groups.
- African Americans--21st century.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 146 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : Graywolf Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "An electric essay collection about Blackness, art, and dreaming of new possibilities in a time of constriction. This collection of innovative, penetrating, and lively essays features swimming pools and poets, road trips and museums, family dinners and celebrity sightings. In a voice that is at once piercing, mournful, and slyly comic, Aisha Sabatini Sloan inhabits several roles: she is an art enthusiast in Los Angeles during a city-wide manhunt; a daughter on a road trip with her father; a professor playing with puppets in the wilds of Vermont; an interloper on a police ride-along in Detroit; a collector of the dreams of scientists at a biostation. As she watches cell phone video recordings of murder and is haunted in her sleep by the news, she reflects on her formative experiences with aesthetic and spiritual discovery, troubling those places where Blackness has been conflated with death. Sabatini Sloan's lively style is perfectly suited to the way she circles a subject or an idea before cinching it tight. The curiosity that guides each essay, focusing on the period between the 2016 election and the onset of the pandemic, is rooted in the supposition that there is an intrinsic relationship between the way we conceptualize darkness and our collective opportunity for awakening."-- Amazon.com.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in a different form by 1913 Press in 2017"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-143).
- Winner of the CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Electronic version: Sabatini Sloan, Aisha. Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit.
- ISBN:
- 9781644452714
- 1644452715
- OCLC:
- 1375549642
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