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Consider pairing Citizen: An American Lyric with Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Consider reading other works by Claudia Rankine, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.
Consider reading other work by African-American female poets, including Yrsa Daley-Ward’s bone, Alexandra Elle’s Words of a Wanderer, Directed by Desire by June Jordan, and The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde.
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The Question and Answer section for Citizen: An American Lyric is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
In context, the author is referring to the weight of memory, the racial insults, the slights, and the mistreatment by other players. The question itself responds to an incident at the 2004 U.S. Open, during which, Williams loses her temper after a...
Rankine switches between several speakers, although the reader may not be informed of these switches at all. In interviews, Rankine says that the stories are collected from a wide range of different people: black, white, male, and female. At...
Like in Sections IV and III, Rankine puts special focus on the body and its potentials to be made known. In particular, the narrator considers what her own voice sounds like. This has many meanings. The voice is a symbol for the self. We often say...
