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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Claudia Rankine"”.
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Lyric Subjectivity, Ethics, Contemporary Poetics: Claudia Rankine, Fanny Howe, Elizabeth Robinson
… poets. I consider select poems and poetics of Claudia Rankine, Fanny Howe, and Elizabeth Robinson, in order to argue that their postlanguage lyric poetry retains lyric subjectivity and reformulates it as ethical insofar as it is "circumspective" or "other-oriented"; that is, the lyric "I" is …
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You Have the Body: An Anti-Testimony
… by Kayla E. and Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. The craft essay relates this analysis to the creative manuscript to posit that it is an original minor form invented by the author called an anti-testimony.
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Reaching for Opacity: Contemporary Afrodiasporic Literature
… Moten, M. NourbeSe Philip, Dionne Brand, and Claudia Rankine, this dissertation amplifies the call for a heightened awareness of the way opacity is woven into both our quotidian encounters and collective political life in a manner we cannot simply disown. Each chapter of this dissertation, …
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Lessons from Hybridity: A Look into the Coupling of Image and Text in Karen Tei Yamashita’s <em>Letters to Memory</em>, Claudia Rankine’s <em>Citizen: An American Lyric</em>, and Ilya Kaminsky’s <em>Deaf Republic</em>
… in Citizen: An American Lyric(2014) by Claudia Rankine, and the instructional sign language placed beside the poems in Deaf Republic(2019) by Ilya Kaminsky. I argue that these contemporary writers use the hybrid format to move beyond being ―heard,‖ in their attempt to ―teach‖ its …
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"Beyond Consolation": Or Strangeness, Estrangement, and Strange-ing in the Elegy for the Black Body, 1955-Present
… Obama America as seen in the conceptual elegy of Claudia Rankine? Does it extend into the meta-elegies for Eric Garner and Michael Brown as exemplified by Ross Gay and Danez Smith? These and much more constitute the elegy for the black body. Beginning with the blues oral tradition, this text …
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Towards a Poetics of the Digital Protest Text: Insights from the #BlackLivesMatter Movement (2013-) and Anti-CAA and Anti-NRC Protests (2019-2020)
… by Aamir Aziz, Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine, A Fortune For Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib to community-produced volumes and images with directed circulation. In doing so, I posit embodiment, archiving, and doubling as key poetics of the digital protest text. I argue that …
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Writing the self: feminist experiment and cultural identity
… and hybrid works by Pamela Lu, Renee Gladman, Claudia Rankine, Juliana Spahr, Gloria Anzaldua, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. These writers, to different degrees, use a variety of formal strategies and problematize narrative autobiographical writing to simultaneously focus on language as …
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Personhood and Objecthood: Examining the Speaker’s Interiority and Double Consciousness in <em>Citizen: An American Lyric</em>
… The essay examines the transformation of Rankine’s works that expands how double consciousness, found in <em>Citizen</em>, influences the creative writing space (the racial imaginary) and exposes the ongoing discrimination against Black Americans due to white privilege. Rankine’s other …
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Structural Inequality and Hypervisibility from Childhood to Adulthood in Baldwin’s Little Man, Little Man and Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric
… Little Man: A Story of Childhood </em>(1974) and Claudia Rankine’s <em>Citizen: An American Lyric </em>(2014)<em> </em>represent Black subjectivity as shaped and sustained through such social constructs that emphasize the hypervisibility of the racialized body. Baldwin and Rankine share an …
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Beyond '9/11': counter-narratives of grief in post-9/11 literature
… Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) and Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (2004) have explored grief in response to the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. It sets out to answer four key questions: is there anything to be gained — politically, socially, …