02228cam a2200313 i 4500 540520185 TxAuBib 20220113120000.0 210721s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021023149 9780814258125 PAP 19.95 0814258123 PAP 19.95 TxAuBib rda Sirisena, Hasanthika. Dark tourist [BOOK] : essays / Hasanthika Sirisena. Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, 2021. viii, 178 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 21st century essays Includes bibliographical references. Part I: Loss... ; Broken arrow ; Lady ; In the presence of God I make this vow ; Pretty girl murdered ; Confessions of a dark tourist ; Abecedarian for the abeyance of loss ; Amblyopia: a medical history -- Part II: ...And recovery ; Soft target ; The answer key ; Six drawing lessons ; Punctum, studium, and The Beatles "A day in the life". 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. Provided by publisher. 20220113. Sirisena, Hasanthika. Essays. 21st century essays.