Residual

Tisa Bryant traces the contours of Black women’s public lives and private intimacies through reflections on literature, arts, and the archive.

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In the aftermath of her mother’s death, Tisa Bryant’s Residual retrieves and catalogs what remains of her home, her psyche, and her creative practice. She filters through the remnants of her mother’s everyday life, asking what becomes an archive—a bookshelf, a dresser, a relationship, a secret? Drawing on personal memories as well as archives of renowned Black women who died prematurely—including playwright Lorraine Hansberry and science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler—Bryant’s hybrid memoir details the intimate accretion of ephemera, outrage, and failure in the wake of loss.

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“An auteur . . . cultural anthropologist . . . and a virtuosic critic-artist.”

-Margo Jefferson
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ISBN: 9781643622965
Paperback, 272 pages
Publication Date: March 25th, 2026

Tisa Bryant is the author of Unexplained Presence, a collection of hybrid essays on Black presences in film, literature and visual art. She is co-editor of the cross-referenced …

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