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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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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2014
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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
 
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* 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 *

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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.


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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