Published 2024-06-01
“…At the same time, it explores how the collection’s three-dimensional forms materialize feelings of constraint to reveal the embeddedness of antiblackness in American popular culture, and the fragility of liberty into the twentieth
century and beyond. While Olio reifies the tension between freedom and bondage in the post-bellum nation, this paper argues that
Jess’s archival recuperation of elided historical figures and innovative configuration of sonnet form demonstrate an ethos of creativity, as it envisions alternative forms of community and autonomy through poetry and music.…”
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