Citizen : an American lyric / Claudia Rankine.
By: Rankine, Claudia [author.].
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. : Graywolf Press, ©2014Description: 169 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.Content type: text ISBN: 9781555976903 (pbk.); 1555976905 (pbk.).Other title: American lyric.Uniform titles: Works. Selections Subject(s): Racism -- United States | American essays | United States -- Race relationsDDC classification: 814.6/R16 Other classification: CAS Awards: Winner of Forward Poetry Prize: Best First Collection 2015. Shortlisted for T S Eliot Prize 2015.Summary: "Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggression 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"--From publisher's description.Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-168).
"Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggression 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"--From publisher's description.
Winner of Forward Poetry Prize: Best First Collection 2015. Shortlisted for T S Eliot Prize 2015.
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