Citizen: An American Lyric Contributor(s): Rankine, Claudia (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555976905 ISBN-13: 9781555976903 Publisher: Graywolf Press
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Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Collections | American - African American |
Dewey: 814.6 |
LCCN: 2014935702 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8" L (0.70 lbs) 160 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian |
Awards: Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award, Winner, Poetry, 2015 National Book Awards, Finalist, Poetry, 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award, Finalist, Criticism, 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award, Winner, Poetry, 2014 Literary Award, Winner, Poetry, 2015 L.A. Times Book Prize, Winner, Poetry, 2014 |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/18/2014 Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2014 Booklist 10/15/2014 pg. 11 New Yorker (The) 10/27/2014 pg. 73 Library Journal 11/01/2014 pg. 102 Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/03/2014 pg. 32 LJ Best Books of Year 12/01/2014 pg. 34 Christian Century 12/10/2014 pg. 31 New York Times Book Review 12/28/2014 pg. 9 New York Times Book Review 01/04/2015 pg. 22 New York Review of Books 04/23/2015 pg. 39 NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/06/2015 pg. 26 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: * Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry * 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rankine, Claudia: - Claudia Rankine is the author of three collections of poetry: Nothing in Nature Is Private, The End of the Alphabet, and Plot. She teaches at the University of Georgia. |
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