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    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"

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    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"

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    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"

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    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"

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    The book remixes stories from novels and films to focus on marginalized black characters and explores how history shapes culture unconsciously.

    It ruminates on how history shapes culture unconsciously by focusing on black characters in European literature, film, and art who are usually sidelined or their presence left unexplained.

    The author's work often crosses genres, cultures and history through layered texts that require new forms. They have written original hybrid essays, novels, poems, among other works.

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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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    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


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    - 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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