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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,

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      Publisher: Wave Books
      Publication Date: 10/17/2024
      ISBN13: 9798891060050, 979-8891060050
      ISBN10: 9798891060050
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ***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,

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