{"product_id":"unexplained-presence-paperback","title":"Unexplained Presence - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTisa Bryant\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMargo Jefferson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***Now with a new afterword by MARGO JEFFERSON***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn Tisa Bryant's \u003cem\u003eUnexplained Presence\u003c\/em\u003e, readers are spectators of mis-en-sc?nes in which black subjectivity has been distorted and denied within various visual narratives.\u003c\/strong\u003e Moving from cultural analysis to cinematic (re)creation, Bryant's prose traverses like a tracking shot through John Schlesinger's \u003cem\u003eDarling\u003c\/em\u003e, Patricia Rozema's \u003cem\u003eMansfield Park\u003c\/em\u003e and Virginia Woolf's \u003cem\u003eOrlando\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eabout\u003c\/em\u003e film; she is an \"auteur,\" a \"cultural anthropologist,\" and a \"virtuosic critic-artist.\" Since its original publication with Leon Works in 2007, \u003cem\u003e Unexplained Presence\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTisa Bryant \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eUnexplained Presence\u003c\/i\u003e (Leon Works, 2007; Wave Books, 2024), a collection of hybrid essays on black presences in film, literature and visual art. She is co-editor of the cross-referenced journal of narrative possibility, \u003ci\u003eThe Encyclopedia Project\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-editor, with Ernest Hardy, of \u003ci\u003eWar Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e, an anthology on black gay men's desire and survival, published in 2010 by AIDS Project Los Angeles, and a finalist for a 2010 LAMBDA literary award. Her essays have appeared in exhibition catalogs for visual artists Laylah Ali, Jaime Cortez, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Suné Woods and Cauleen Smith, and is forthcoming in the anthology \u003ci\u003eLetters to the Future: Black Experimental Women Writers\u003c\/i\u003e, and in a catalogue of site-specific art from The New School. She has done numerous presentations of cinema essays, most recently at ALOUD's \"School of Prince\" event at the Los Angeles Public Library, and at \"Speak Nearby,\" a symposium of text and performance inspired by Trinh T. Minh-ha. Tisa Bryant was a commissioned writer\/researcher for Radio Imagination, Clockshop's year-long Los Angeles celebration of science fiction writer Octavia Butler, in collaboration with the Huntington Library in Pasadena, which houses the Octavia E. Butler Papers. She is working on \u003ci\u003eThe Curator\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel of Black female subjectivity and imagined cinema. \u003ci\u003eResidual\u003c\/i\u003e, a meditation on grief, longing, desire and archival research, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.6 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51752030896416,"sku":"9798891060050","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/28c3b5495758f2ec336e3d2b89991eb6.webp?v=1779986139","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/unexplained-presence-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}