Chapter 5

Like in Sections IV and III, Rankine puts special focus on the body and its potentials to be made known. In particular, the narrator considers what her own voice sounds like. This has many meanings. The voice is a symbol for the self. We often say that somebody is trying to develop their 'voice' when they are writing a book, or that one should 'voice' their opinion. It is a symbol for the physical capacity to speak, but also for the capacity to be an individual.