Citizen : an American lyric
Rankine, Claudia, 1963-2015
Book
"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."--From publisher's description.
Main title:
Citizen : an American lyric / Claudia Rankine.
Author:
Rankine, Claudia, 1963-, author
Imprint:
[London], UK : Penguin Books, 2015.©2014
Collation:
166 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2014.Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-166).
ISBN:
9780141981772 (paperback)
Dewey class:
811.6
Language:
English
Added title:
Subject:
BRN:
217282
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