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Dark Tourist: Essays
By : Hasanthika Sirisena
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Book Synopsis :
?Shimmers with honesty, vulnerability, and circumspection.? ?Kirkus 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
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Author : Hasanthika Sirisena
Pages : 184 pages
Publisher : Mad Creek Books
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ISBN-10 : 57621435
ISBN-13 : 9780814258125
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