{"title":"The Book of Sojourners","authors":"Blessing Oshun Ra","doi":"10.47106/12576336","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"How have Black folks/art utilized flight as an act of refusal? Set in the Bronx, NY, and rooted in a poetics drawn from the heartfelt oratures of the spirituals, work songs, field hollers, the Blues, this opening chapter of The Book of Sojourners immerses us in a world strained by various ecological, health, and other crises, where we meet Safiya, a Black teenage girl, who yearns to escape her Aunt's strict religious household so she can find community members with whom she can freely be trans, and her brother Malcolm, who looks to conspiracy theories and stories about people who could fly rather than his Aunt's Christian beliefs to understand the day's vicissitudes, setting the stage for an epic journey into a struggle for self-elevation.","PeriodicalId":340170,"journal":{"name":"Root Work Journal","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Root Work Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.47106/12576336","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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How have Black folks/art utilized flight as an act of refusal? Set in the Bronx, NY, and rooted in a poetics drawn from the heartfelt oratures of the spirituals, work songs, field hollers, the Blues, this opening chapter of The Book of Sojourners immerses us in a world strained by various ecological, health, and other crises, where we meet Safiya, a Black teenage girl, who yearns to escape her Aunt's strict religious household so she can find community members with whom she can freely be trans, and her brother Malcolm, who looks to conspiracy theories and stories about people who could fly rather than his Aunt's Christian beliefs to understand the day's vicissitudes, setting the stage for an epic journey into a struggle for self-elevation.
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