Black Lives/White Backgrounds: Claudia Rankine’s <i>Citizen: An American Lyric</i> and Critical Race Theory

Adams, Bella

doi:10.1080/14775700.2017.1406734

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Poethical Force: Muriel Pic, Claudia Rankine, Rosa Alcalá

Mills

2025

Poetry, Performativity, and Ordinary Language Philosophy

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It might seem like the focus on poetic documents in Chap. 6 neglects an important part of poetic production, and possibly the part that Henri Meschonnic is thinking of when he argues that any poem is the mutual transformation of forms of language and forms of life, namely the lyrical. How does the ‘objective’ dimension of documents relate to the ‘subjective’ lyric experience? As I will argue in this chapter, the opposition between documentary and lyric poetry is an artificial one that has been reinforced, in France, by the so-called war between the literalist and the lyric poets that Olivier Cadiot describes. Poetic documents reveal a documentary nature of poetry in which the account of a personal, subjective experience becomes intersubjective—shared and sharable. This documentary poetry therefore becomes a space for the lyrical and I will explore how it combines the ethical (as transformation of a form of life) and the poetic (as transformation of a form of language) in a common task.

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Poethical Force: Muriel Pic, Claudia Rankine, Rosa Alcalá

Mills

2025

Poetry, Performativity, and Ordinary Language Philosophy

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Black Poetics of Affect: Intimate Public Encounters with Strangers in Claudia Rankine’s Just Us (2020)

Cobo-Piñero¹

2023

Women: a cultural review

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The Personal Is Theoretical and the Past Is Present: Blurring the Lines in Contemporary Anti-Racist Writing

Hartmann¹

2018

Open Cultural Studies

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This article studies the anti-racist writings by contemporary scholars Cornel West, Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., George Yancy, and Claudia Rankine. It uncovers how they include personal narratives in their works in order to theorise the workings of white hegemony in the twenty-first century. In doing so, I argue, they productively blur the lines between the personal and the theoretical as well as between the past and the present. Consequently, they problematise the notion of abstract theorising, the myth of continuous racial progress as well as conceptions of postracialism.

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Black Lives/White Backgrounds: Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric and Critical Race Theory

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Cited by 4 publications

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Poethical Force: Muriel Pic, Claudia Rankine, Rosa Alcalá

Poethical Force: Muriel Pic, Claudia Rankine, Rosa Alcalá

Black Poetics of Affect: Intimate Public Encounters with Strangers in Claudia Rankine’s Just Us (2020)

The Personal Is Theoretical and the Past Is Present: Blurring the Lines in Contemporary Anti-Racist Writing

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