Citizen An American Lyric Breaks The Continuum Of A...

Citizen: An American Lyric breaks the continuum of a linear narrative. It forces the reader to pause and engage with the visuals included in it. Furthermore, Claudia Rankine uses commentaries as a literary genre that effectively extends the ways and expressions in which Americans still encounter racism. Visuals and texts juxtapose to create captioned artworks; which Rankine interprets for the reader. Thus, those interpretations function as informative: telling the venues and forms where racism is portrayed and sponsored. Rankine defies the limits of scholarly literature by using visuals to summarize the context, thus, converting the book as if it were an art gallery exhibition: â€Å"Citizen acts as a kind of art gallery playing out the aesthetic of supremacist sterility, each segment being like a long, painfully white hall we’re walking down, punctuated by stunning images of black intensity and alterity† (Bomb magazine 2). Lauren Berlant comments on how Rankine’ s work shows their commonalities as writers who confront and face the challenges of being Black and questioned in numerous quotidian interactions about their intellect. Furthermore, the deliberate act to include images into the text serves as a cinematic experience by unleashing meanings that words cannot tell and Rankine’s utterances cannot convey. Thus, to incorporate a large number of visuals in a text oriented to literature college students, I would call it: risky and experimental. Perhaps, one can add out of theShow MoreRelatedStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 PagesThree Ethical Decision Criteria 187 †¢ Improving Creativity in Decision Making 188 Summary and Implications for Managers 190 S A S A S A L L L Self-Assessment Library What Are My Gender Role Perceptions? 166 glOBalization! Chinese Time, North American Time 171 Myth or Science? Creative Decision Making Is a Right-Brain Activity 181 Self-Assessment Library Am I A Deliberate Decision Maker? 183 An Ethical Choice Whose Ethical Standards to Follow? 185 Self-Assessment Library How Creative Am I? 190