In Residual, Tisa Bryant weaves together memories, scenes from the life of her late mother, and her own research into the lives of other Black women writers and artists into an intimate hybrid memoir. Central to the work is the relation between grief and the archive, and the way the latter can act as “a site of Black life and afterlife, presence being asserted, reframed, affirmed.” In this conversation, we discuss “spiral retelling,” the many definitions of “residue,” and how writing can inhabit a “death-bent sense of time.” —Lucia Kan-Sperling Lucia Kan-Sperling: The title Residual points both to a surplus and a…

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