Unexplained Presence
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (688 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0976582015 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 159 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Thought-provoking and challenging First of all, I had the pleasure of meeting Tisa Bryant when she came to speak at Sacramento State earlier this year, and let me tell you, there is nothing unexplained about her presence. She is a powerful woman with a powerful voice.I begin with that statement because I am honestly not intelligent enough to analyze, critique, or summarize this book, other than to think about how I felt when I heard her read Unexplained Presence out loud. At once, there was nothing unexplained about her presence - an intelligent black woman standing in front of a group of people reading in a well-tempoed, captivatin
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. Moving from interrogations of François 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. By remixing stories from novels and films