"Mismatched Yet Perfectly Puzzled": Collage and/as Black Girls' Literacies in Piecing Me Together

In their work on Black girls' literacies, Muhammad and Haddix demonstrate the importance of centering and valuing texts that both celebrate Black girlhood and speak to specific aspects of literacy, particularly multimodality and criticality. Drawing upon their call and framework, in this article we examine Renée Watson's Piecing Me Together (2017) as a text that celebrates art and Black girls' literacies. Our analysis focuses on how Watson uses collage—the action, the artwork, and the conceptual metaphor—to address identity and history (re)making in the Black diaspora for Jade, her protagonist.