TY - BOOK ID - 145309150 TI - Unexplained presence PY - 2007 SN - 9780976582014 PB - New York : Leon Works, DB - UniCat KW - Noirs au cinema KW - Noirs dans l'art KW - Noirs dans la litterature KW - Noirs au cinema KW - Noirs dans l'art KW - Noirs dans la litterature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145309150 AB - 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. ER -