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Unexplained Presence by Tisa Bryant

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Original Title: Unexplained Presence


ISBN: 0976582015
ISBN13: 9780976582014
Autor: Tisa Bryant (Goodreads Author)
Rating: 5 of 5 stars (1584) counts
Original Format: Paperback, 159 pages
Download Format: PDF, DJVU, iBook, MP3.
Published: December 1st 2008 / by Leon Works / (first published 2008)
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Poetry- 4 users
Nonfiction- 3 users
Writing >Essays- 2 users

Description:

Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. African American Studies. By remixing stories from novels and films to
zoom in on the black presences within them, Tisa Bryant's UNEXPLAINED PRESENCE ruminates
on the sublime power of history to shape culture in the subconscious of both the artist and the
reader/viewer. Moving from interrogations of Francois Ozon's 8 Femmes and Virginia Woolf's
Orlando to the machinations of the Regency House Party reality TV show, UNEXPLAINED
PRESENCE weaves threads of myth, fact and fiction into previously unexplored narratives lurking
in our collective imagination.

"This is truly a bold book, one that combines scenes of rich technicolor with the light of truth, at
once invoking and dissolving cultural myths and faux histories." Brenda Coultas

"Investigating the symbolic construction of identity and myth from the angle of art, Tisa Bryant's
UNEXPLAINED PRESENCE takes up 'black presences in European literature, visual art, and film.'
Fusing criticism, film theory, and fiction with a keenly poetic ear, Bryant reenters cultural artifacts
to open up these symbolically loaded but structurally silenced or backgrounded characters and
motifs. Her stories trace the ways in which black subjectivity is distributed or denied within pictures
and plots, between viewers and artworks and artists, and in acts of conversation and debate, of
queer identification or refusal to see. What is most remarkable is how Bryant transforms these
elisions into acts of imagination, restoring or reconfiguring partially glimpsed subjects via fleet and
surprising sentences that traverse the distance between representation and meaning." San
Francisco Bay Guardian"

About Author:
Tisa Bryants work often traverses the boundaries of genre, culture and history, creating multi-
layered texts that demand new forms.
Her first book, Unexplained Presence (Leon Works, 2007), is a collection of original, hybrid essays
that remix narratives from Eurocentric film, literature and visual arts and zoom in on the black
presences operating within them. In her introduction to Bryants recent reading, Stacy Szymaszek,
director of the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church in New York, said, Like the great Edouard
Glissant, her work is at once novel, essay and poetry, these modulations emerging and
transmuting in a practice Bryant's latest publication, a collaborative volume with author/filmmaker
Chris Kraus for the Belladonna Elders Series, contains an excerpt from her next novel, [the
curator], a rumination on cinema and a black woman's ways of seeing.
Bryant maintains an active engagement with visual arts and literary community as a founding
editor/publisher of the cross-genre hardcover annual, The Encyclopedia Project, and as faculty in
the MFA Writing Program at the California Institute of the Arts.

Other Editions:

Books By Author:

- Encyclopedia Volume 1, A-E

- Encyclopedia Volume 2, F-K


- Tzimmes

- War Diaries

- Belladonna Elders Series, #3

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Rewiews:

Sep 30, 2016


Steven Felicelli
Rated it: it was amazing
Roland Barthes meets Claudia Rankine meets Laura Marks - meditations on race, gender,
representation and unrepresentation powered by electric prose/poetry - Bryant is that rare
combination in the Anglophone world at present: a fantastic writer with something to say

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