Citizen - An American Lyric (Paperback)

A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book "Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
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Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV--everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, "Citizen" is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named "post-race" society.

General

Imprint:	Graywolf Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2014
First published:	October 2014
Authors:	Claudia Rankine
Dimensions:	203 x 140 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	169
ISBN-13:	978-1-55597-690-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	1-55597-690-5
Barcode:	9781555976903

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