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Citizen

Citizen

An American Lyric

by Claudia Rankine
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 21/04/2015

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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.
ISBN:
9781494510510
9781494510510
Category:
Poetry
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
21-04-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Tantor Media, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
134.62x162.56x27.94mm
Weight:
0.14kg
Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine is the author of five books, including Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric and the bestselling Citizen: An American Lyric.

A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she is the winner of many prizes including the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship.

She is an adjunct professor of English and African-American Studies at Yale University, and has previously taught at Pomona College and the University of Southern California.

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