An edition of Citizen (2014)

Citizen

An American Lyric

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An edition of Citizen (2014)

Citizen

An American Lyric

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You take in things you don't want all the time. The second you hear or see some ordinary movement, all its intended targets, all the meanings behind the retreating sounds, as far as you are able to see, come into focus. Hold up, did you just hear, did you just say, did you just see, did you just do that? Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn't be an ambition. --from back cover

"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." -- from publisher's description.

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Graywolf Press
Language
English
Pages
160

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Ciutadà: Poema líric nord-americà
Dec 27, 2018, Institució Alfons el Magnànim
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Citizen: an American lyric
2018, Dramatists Play Service Inc.
in English
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Apr 21, 2015, Tantor Audio
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Citizen: An American Lyric
2015, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Apr 21, 2015, Tantor Audio
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Citizen: An American Lyric
2015, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
Cover of: Citizen
Citizen: An American Lyric
2014, Graywolf Press
in English
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Citizan, An American Lyric
2014-01-01, Graywolf Press
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Citizen: An American Lyric
October 7, 2014, Graywolf Press
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Paperback
Number of pages
160

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25632207M
ISBN 10
1555976905
ISBN 13
9781555976903
LCCN
2014935702
OCLC/WorldCat
870663869, 893101435
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B002BP89XC
Better World Books
BWBM51416374

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OL17062866W

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