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Citizen, October 2014
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Citizen, October 2014
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An American Lyric
Graywolf Press
October 2014
On Sale: October 7, 2014
160 pages
ISBN: 1555976905
EAN: 9781555976903
Kindle: B00MLLZQ64
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Fiction Poetry
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 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.
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