"My Sisters' Country is a multi-vocal chorus of Black women's voices across, over, under, and through time. Jackson artfully weaves together the voices of her fifth great grandmother, Black Feminist Scholar Hortense Spillers, ingenious musical artist Missy Elliot, and the wide-brimmed, white-gloved church ladies of her youth to explore and discover the makings of a Black girl and a Black woman. Jackson bends and breaks forms like sonnet, pantoum, and zuihitsu while introducing the playlist poem all in an attempt to provide ...
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"My Sisters' Country is a multi-vocal chorus of Black women's voices across, over, under, and through time. Jackson artfully weaves together the voices of her fifth great grandmother, Black Feminist Scholar Hortense Spillers, ingenious musical artist Missy Elliot, and the wide-brimmed, white-gloved church ladies of her youth to explore and discover the makings of a Black girl and a Black woman. Jackson bends and breaks forms like sonnet, pantoum, and zuihitsu while introducing the playlist poem all in an attempt to provide the truest version of her Black woman self, to make the language and the form more true to the beauties and traumas and moans and undoings of Black girl and womanhood. This explorative text invites the reader on a journey to consider the ways that Black women, who were once considered countryless property, made country out of and in one another. And asks the questions: What are the consequences? How terrifying and beautiful are they? How terrifying and beautiful is the rebuilding, the renaming, of country?"--
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