Unexplained presence
Book - 2024
"In Tisa Bryant's Unexplained Presence, readers are spectators of mise-en-scènes in which black subjectivity has been distorted and denied within various visual narratives. Moving from cultural analysis to cinematic (re)creation, Bryant's prose traverses like a tracking shot through John Schlesinger's Darling, Patricia Rozema's Mansfield Park and Virginia Woolf's Orlando, giving voice to characters whom have otherwise been structurally silenced. As Pulitzer-prize winning author Margo Jefferson aptly points out in her afterword, Tisa Bryant doesn't merely write about film; she is an "auteur," a "cultural anthropologist," and a "virtuosic critic-artist." Since its original publ...ication with Leon Works in 2007, Unexplained Presence has been foundational among poets, scholars, and film critics and with this publication, Tisa Bryant's legacy as one of the most innovative voices in contemporary literature is preserved"--
- Subjects
- Published
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[Seattle] :
Wave Books
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First Wave Books edition
- Physical Description
- xii, 174 pages ; 20 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9798891060050
- Preface
- Darling
- Something in the Air
- While London Burns... Violet is Blue
- California Negroes
- Under Cover of Darkness
- In Melville's Jungle
- Andre's Masked Ball
- Looking a Mad Dog in the Eyes
- Portrait of a Lady
- The Head of the Moor
- The Problem of Dido
- Unexplained Presence
- Credits
- Afterword