These Dark Skies
Reckoning with Identity, Violence, and Power from Abroad
Seiten
2022
University of Iowa Press (Verlag)
978-1-60938-841-6 (ISBN)
University of Iowa Press (Verlag)
978-1-60938-841-6 (ISBN)
Interweaves Arianne Zwartjes’ experience of living in the southern Netherlands and the unfolding of the refugee crisis across Europe and the uptick in terrorist acts in France, Greece, Austria, Germany, and the Balkans. She probes her own subjectivity, as a white American, as a queer woman in a transcultural marriage, as a writer, and as a witness.
In These Dark Skies, Arianne Zwartjes interweaves the experience of living in the southern Netherlands—with her wife, who is Russian—and the unfolding of both the refugee crisis across Europe and the uptick in terrorist acts in France, Greece, Austria, Germany, and the Balkans. She probes her own subjectivity, as a white American, as a queer woman in a transcultural marriage, as a writer, and as a witness.
The essays investigate and meditate on a broad array of related topics, including drone strikes, tear gas, and military intervention; the sugar trade, the Dutch blackface celebration of Zwarte Piet, and constructions of whiteness in Europe and the U.S.; and visual arts of Russian avant-garde painters, an Iraqi choreographer living in Belgium, and German choreographer Pina Bausch.
This is a lyrical, timely book deeply salient to the political moment we continue to find ourselves in: a moment of incredible anti-refugee and anti-immigrant sentiment, a moment of xenophobic and misogynistic violence.
In These Dark Skies, Arianne Zwartjes interweaves the experience of living in the southern Netherlands—with her wife, who is Russian—and the unfolding of both the refugee crisis across Europe and the uptick in terrorist acts in France, Greece, Austria, Germany, and the Balkans. She probes her own subjectivity, as a white American, as a queer woman in a transcultural marriage, as a writer, and as a witness.
The essays investigate and meditate on a broad array of related topics, including drone strikes, tear gas, and military intervention; the sugar trade, the Dutch blackface celebration of Zwarte Piet, and constructions of whiteness in Europe and the U.S.; and visual arts of Russian avant-garde painters, an Iraqi choreographer living in Belgium, and German choreographer Pina Bausch.
This is a lyrical, timely book deeply salient to the political moment we continue to find ourselves in: a moment of incredible anti-refugee and anti-immigrant sentiment, a moment of xenophobic and misogynistic violence.
Arianne Zwartjes teaches for the Sierra Nevada University MFA program. She is author of Detailing Trauma: A Poetic Anatomy (Iowa, 2012). Her writing has been awarded the Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize, been a Best American Essays notable essay, and a semifinalist for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. She lives in Tacoma, Washington.
Erscheinungsdatum | 25.04.2022 |
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Verlagsort | Iowa |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 203 mm |
Gewicht | 389 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton | |
ISBN-10 | 1-60938-841-0 / 1609388410 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-60938-841-6 / 9781609388416 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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