TISA BRYANT
reading/workshop
Wednesday, March 31
7 pm
Mills Hall 322
free and open to the public
When I wasn't writing in my notebooks in a delusional and impenetrably cryptic imitation of Anais Nin (though I was bummed out from her writings about "Negresses," her condescension to her Black maid), I ran the streets, squirmed my underage ass into the The RamRod, Jumpin' Jack Flash, the 1270 Club, and did a lot of drugs. I had to balance things out. Most of my friends had odd jobs, none of them were writers or wanted to be, as far as I knew. We didn't get that deep. We just made money somehow and partied. Dying fast was romantic. Getting old, especially in an office, was just not. The other girls, the roommates, and me moved upstairs in the rooming house 20x20 foot spread. Random kids, our breakdancing, tagging, boom-box-having friends, were less constantly sleeping on the floor.
--Tisa Bryant, Home Training to Crash Pad in _Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader_
Tisa Bryant's family emigrated in the 1920s from the island of Barbados to Boston, Massachusetts, where they remain today. Although she was raised within African American traditions, she grew up very much aware that the recorded histories of predominantly southern Black people in the U.S., while related to her, did not specifically address the experiences of Caribbean people. Her book, _Tzimmes_, was published in 2000 by A+Bend Press, began her exploration of West Indian bodies, both flesh and earth, and their contested assimilation into American and African American culture. She has recently had work published in the anthologies _Children of the Dream: Our Own Stories of Growing Up Black in America_ (Pocket Books, 1999), _Beyond the Frontier_ (Black Classics Press, 2000), _Step Into A World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature_ (John Wiley And Sons, Fall 2000), and _Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader_ (MIT, 2002). She lived and worked in Oakland in the mid 1990s and much of her current writing is about her experience as a worker during this period.
Tisa's essay from _Hatred of Capitalism_ and a 2nd section is on reserve.
Please read this before class...
go to: http://minerva.mills.edu/
choose reserves by faculty
enter spahr in the search box
choose english 180
the password is eng180s04
reading/workshop
Wednesday, March 31
7 pm
Mills Hall 322
free and open to the public
When I wasn't writing in my notebooks in a delusional and impenetrably cryptic imitation of Anais Nin (though I was bummed out from her writings about "Negresses," her condescension to her Black maid), I ran the streets, squirmed my underage ass into the The RamRod, Jumpin' Jack Flash, the 1270 Club, and did a lot of drugs. I had to balance things out. Most of my friends had odd jobs, none of them were writers or wanted to be, as far as I knew. We didn't get that deep. We just made money somehow and partied. Dying fast was romantic. Getting old, especially in an office, was just not. The other girls, the roommates, and me moved upstairs in the rooming house 20x20 foot spread. Random kids, our breakdancing, tagging, boom-box-having friends, were less constantly sleeping on the floor.
--Tisa Bryant, Home Training to Crash Pad in _Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader_
Tisa Bryant's family emigrated in the 1920s from the island of Barbados to Boston, Massachusetts, where they remain today. Although she was raised within African American traditions, she grew up very much aware that the recorded histories of predominantly southern Black people in the U.S., while related to her, did not specifically address the experiences of Caribbean people. Her book, _Tzimmes_, was published in 2000 by A+Bend Press, began her exploration of West Indian bodies, both flesh and earth, and their contested assimilation into American and African American culture. She has recently had work published in the anthologies _Children of the Dream: Our Own Stories of Growing Up Black in America_ (Pocket Books, 1999), _Beyond the Frontier_ (Black Classics Press, 2000), _Step Into A World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature_ (John Wiley And Sons, Fall 2000), and _Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader_ (MIT, 2002). She lived and worked in Oakland in the mid 1990s and much of her current writing is about her experience as a worker during this period.
Tisa's essay from _Hatred of Capitalism_ and a 2nd section is on reserve.
Please read this before class...
go to: http://minerva.mills.edu/
choose reserves by faculty
enter spahr in the search box
choose english 180
the password is eng180s04
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