Citizen: An American Lyric

ISBN-13: 9780141981772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 176 str.

Claudia Rankine

Opis

Recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in 21st century daily life and in the media. This book shows how the accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform and stay alive.

Examines the experience of race and racism in Western society through sharp vignettes of everyday discrimination and prejudice. This book includes essays, images and poetry together to form a testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in an ostensibly post-race society.

Recenzje

Wonderfully capacious and innovative. In her riffs on the demotic, in her layering of incident, Rankine finds a new way of writing about race in America Nick Laird New York Review of Books

O autorze

Claudia Rankine is a poet, essayist and playwright; her numerous works include the ground-breaking American Lyric trilogy, Don't Let Me Be Lonely (2004), Citizen (2014) and Just Us (2020). A chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets, she is recipient of many honours including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Forward Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship. She is a professor of creative writing at New York University, and has previously taught at Pomona College and Yale University.