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These Dark Skies: Reckoning with Identity, Violence, and Power from Abroad

These Dark Skies: Reckoning with Identity, Violence, and Power from Abroad

Zwartjes, Arianne

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ISBN10: 1609388410
ISBN13: 9781609388416
Publisher: Univ Of Iowa Pr
Published: Jun 15 2022
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.80 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
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.

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