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Citizen, October 2014
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Citizen, October 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
An American Lyric
Graywolf Press
October 2014
On Sale: October 7, 2014
160 pages ISBN: 9781555976 EAN: 9789781555978 Kindle: B00MLLZQ64 Hardcover / e-Book
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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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