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Paperback. Zustand: Good. 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 Fran ois 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 CoultasInvestigating 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.…

Paperback. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Second printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. CLEAN CONTENT PAGES. SEE PHOTOS FOR MORE INFORMATION. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Pale cover & edge a little marked.

Softcover. First Edition, Second Printing. Octavo; xii, 167 pages; Very Good; spine red with white and black lettering; minor shelfwear; textblock clean; shelved under Front Counter. 1367128. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. SIGNED by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Slight warp of the book. Minor wear and stain on the covers. Text is clear of markings and notations. Binding is intact. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed by author. …