States of Emergency/States of Emergence: Notes on Claudia Rankine

States of Emergency/States of Emergence: Notes on Claudia Rankine

This article considers Claudia Rankine’s representation of racial violence and the culture of white supremacy in Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric and Citizen: An American Lyric. Beginning from her conviction of the fundamental connection between white supremacist thinking and the enclosure...

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Autor principal: Spinks, Lee
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Lenguaje:Anglais
Publicado: European journal of American studies 2023
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Claudia Rankine
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
Citizen
social emergency
white supremacy
social death
anti-blackness
sovereignty
lyric
Acceso en línea:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:ejas_20004 https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.20004 urn:doi:10.4000/ejas.20004 en https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/20004 2023-07-08T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/fmzh https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ States of Emergency/States of Emergence: Notes on Claudia Rankine European journal of American studies European Association for American Studies info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1991-9336 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas Spinks, Lee Claudia Rankine Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Citizen social emergency white supremacy social death anti-blackness sovereignty lyric This article considers Claudia Rankine’s representation of racial violence and the culture of white supremacy in Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric and Citizen: An American Lyric. Beginning from her conviction of the fundamental connection between white supremacist thinking and the enclosure of black life within the social death of slavery, it explores the consequences for both black and white identity of white fantasies of absolute sovereignty. Central to Rankine’s elaboration of these questions, the article maintains, is her virtuosic reconfiguring of lyric form to expose the ideological and discursive mechanisms that organise American racial reality.
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topic Claudia Rankine
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
Citizen
social emergency
white supremacy
social death
anti-blackness
sovereignty
lyric
spellingShingle Claudia Rankine
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
Citizen
social emergency
white supremacy
social death
anti-blackness
sovereignty
lyric
Spinks, Lee
States of Emergency/States of Emergence: Notes on Claudia Rankine
description This article considers Claudia Rankine’s representation of racial violence and the culture of white supremacy in Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric and Citizen: An American Lyric. Beginning from her conviction of the fundamental connection between white supremacist thinking and the enclosure of black life within the social death of slavery, it explores the consequences for both black and white identity of white fantasies of absolute sovereignty. Central to Rankine’s elaboration of these questions, the article maintains, is her virtuosic reconfiguring of lyric form to expose the ideological and discursive mechanisms that organise American racial reality.
author Spinks, Lee
author_facet Spinks, Lee
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title States of Emergency/States of Emergence: Notes on Claudia Rankine
title_short States of Emergency/States of Emergence: Notes on Claudia Rankine
title_full States of Emergency/States of Emergence: Notes on Claudia Rankine
title_fullStr States of Emergency/States of Emergence: Notes on Claudia Rankine
title_full_unstemmed States of Emergency/States of Emergence: Notes on Claudia Rankine
title_sort states of emergency/states of emergence: notes on claudia rankine
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