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Bezig met laden... Citizen: An American Lyric (origineel 2014; editie 2014)door Claudia Rankine (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkCitizen: An American Lyric door Claudia Rankine (2014)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This book shares a lot of themes with "American Fiction" the movie, for good reason. I also had to look back at when this book was first published as there were several pieces that ring true to more recent events. Every person working towards being anti-racist should read this book. ( ) I just think I'm too stupid to understand poetic language. This is a short book so I kept reading every line I didn't immediately get multiple times. I thought hard about it, tried to get what was being communicated. And I just constantly didn't get it. So yeah 2 stars is just because I didn't get most of the book outside the basic declarative stuff about racism. It's me being stupid not a criticism of the book La primera mitad me ha parecido brutal, la segunda se me ha quedado un poco más floja en comparación. Sin embargo, la visión que aporta de las situaciones cotidianas vistas desde una primera persona y que no solemos ser capaces de descifrar desde el privilegio blanco me han encogido el corazón y me han hecho ser mucho más consciente de todo. Totalmente recomendado, y más aún con lo que está pasando en el mundo ahora. A brilliant and powerful piece of work exploring the relentless, horrific impact of White supremacy on Black people through a poetic examination of specific instances, both public and private, that reveal the incessant reinforcement of White supremacy and racism by White people individually and collectively. I'd been meaning to read this for awhile, finally found a copy yesterday, and spent this morning immersed in Rankine's words and the included images from beginning to end. The import and pain are beautifully, unflinchingly conveyed. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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