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Citizen : an American lyric by Rankine, Claudia is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Citizen : an American lyric about?

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.“Rankine brilliantly pushes poetry’s forms to disarm readers and circumvent our carefully constructed defence mechanisms against the hint of possibly being racist ourselves.” - The New York Times Book ReviewClaudia 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."[Citizen] is an especially vital book for this moment in time... As Rankine’s brilliant, disabusing work, always aware of its ironies, reminds us, ‘moving on’ is not synonymous with ‘leaving behind.”

Who reads Citizen : an American lyric?

Author

Rankine, Claudia

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780141981789

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, American Poetry

Rating

4.3 / 5 (15,270 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13