Citizen : an American lyric / by Claudia Rankine, adapted for the stage by Stephen Sachs.
A searing, poetic riff on race in America, fusing prose, poetry, movement, music, and the visual image. Snapshots, vignettes, on the acts of everyday racism. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, a...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Dramatists Play Service Inc.,
[2018]
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| Physical Description: | 43 pages ; 20 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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A searing, poetic riff on race in America, fusing prose, poetry, movement, music, and the visual image. Snapshots, vignettes, on the acts of everyday racism. 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, online, on TV -- everywhere, all the time. Those did-that-really-just-happen-did-they-really-just-say-that slurs that happen every day and enrage in the moment and later steep poisonously in the mind. And, of course, those larger incidents that become national or international firestorms. As Rankine writes, "This is how you are a citizen." -- Publisher's description |
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| Note: | Cast: 3 men, 3 women "Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric was originally published as a collection of poetry and prose by Graywolf Press, [©2014.]" |
| Call Number: | PS3568.A572 C58 2018 |
| ISBN: | 9780822238379 0822238373 |
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