Residual by Tisa Bryant - 9781643622965

Name: Residual by Tisa Bryant - 9781643622965
Brand: Nightboat Books

Nightboat Books

ResidualAuthor(s): Tisa Bryant\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Nightboat Books, United States\nImprint: Nightboat Books\nISBN-13: 9781643622965, 978-1643622965\nSynopsis\nWriting alongside the specter of premature death, Tisa Bryant traces the contours of Black womens interior lives and domestic spaces through meditations on literature, cinema, installations, and archival research to reaffirm her own way of being.\n\nIn the long aftermath of her mothers death, Tisa Bryants Residual retrieves and catalogs what remains of her home, her psyche, and her creative practice. She filters through the remnants of her mothers everyday life asking, what else is an archivea bookshelf, a dresser drawer, a relationship, a secret? Drawing on personal memories and impressions as well as archives of renowned Black women, who also died prematurely, including playwright Lorraine Hansberry and science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler, Bryants hybrid memoir details the intimate accretion of ephemera, outra.