Unexplained Presence

Unexplained Presence - Paperback

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Unexplained Presence - Paperback

Unexplained Presence - Paperback

by Tisa Bryant , Margo Jefferson
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***Now with a new afterword by MARGO JEFFERSON***


In Tisa Bryant's Unexplained Presence, readers are spectators of mis-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 publication 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.
ISBN9798891060050
Author Tisa Bryant , Margo Jefferson
PublisherWave Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages200
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Unexplained Presence

Unexplained Presence - Paperback

Unexplained Presence - Paperback

By Tisa Bryant and Margo Jefferson
About Tisa Bryant
Tisa Bryant is the author of Unexplained Presence, a collection of hybrid essays on Black presences in film, literature and visual art. She is co-editor of the cross-referenced literary journal, The Encyclopedia Project, and collaborates with Ernest Hardy on The Black Book series of visual mixtape love letters to black people and black culture, at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. She has written for shows and catalogs for artists Jacob Mason-Macklin, Cauleen Smith, Laylah Ali, and Wura-Natasha Ogunji, among others, and has work forthcoming in Brink. She is an assistant professor in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
About Margo Jefferson
The winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Margo Jefferson previously served as book and arts critic for Newsweek and the New York Times. Her writing has appeared in, among other publications, Vogue, New York Magazine, The Nation, and Guernica. Her memoir, Negroland, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. She is also the author of On Michael Jackson and is a professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts.

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