![]() They achieve themselves to death trying to dodge the buildup of erasure.”Ĭitizen does much of its work in the body of the readers who stand in for her. As she notes, “a friend once told you there exists the medical term-John Henryism-for people exposed to stresses stemming from racism. To be black, Citizen insists, is to be audibly, palpably, invisible, and the book is in large part a struggle to make that feeling tangible. That small, momentary shift makes the stakes of her approach unmistakable. It imagines-assumes-an all-white audience and, in the process, erases Rankine, who will resume the role or “you” one sentence later. ![]() ![]() More than 40 pages in, for just that one sentence, “you” means someone else. ![]()
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