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Citizen: An American Lyric
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ISBN10: 1555976905
ISBN13: 9781555976903
Publisher: Gray Wolf Pr
Published: Oct 7 2014
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Awards: Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award, L.A. Times Book Prize, Literary Award, National Book Awards, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award
ISBN13: 9781555976903
Publisher: Gray Wolf Pr
Published: Oct 7 2014
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Awards: Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award, L.A. Times Book Prize, Literary Award, National Book Awards, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award
* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry *
* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Slate, Time Out New York, Vulture, Refinery 29, and many more . . . 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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