Citizen: An American Lyric
by Claudia Rankine
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Kingston, New York, United States
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About This Item
A very good+ signed copy of Claudia Rankine's Citizen, signed "Love, Claudia" with a warm inscription on title page, possible association copy. VG+ in wraps.
Synopsis
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 publishers website).
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- Bookseller
- Blackbird Infoshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29
- Title
- Citizen: An American Lyric
- Author
- Claudia Rankine
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 16th printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis, MN
- Date Published
- 2014
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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- Association Copy
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