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"Memory is a tough place. You were there": Reading Claudia Rankine's Citizen, a Living Archive

"Memory is a tough place. You were there": Reading Claudia Rankine's Citizen, a Living Archive

Nicholas, Claire
Advisor: Zwarg, Christina, 1949-
Department: Haverford College. Department of English
Type: Thesis
Issue Date: 2021
Subject: Rankine, Claudia, 1963- Citizen
Rankine, Claudia, 1963- -- Criticism and interpretation
Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth. In the wake : on Blackness and being
Memory in literature
Access Restrictions: Open Access
Terms of Use: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Permanent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10066/23589

Abstract:

A focus on Claudia Rankine's use of the second person in her self-described lyric Citizen, in which I argue she invites all readers toparticipate in what ends up being a form of "wake work," a term coined by Christina Sharpe in her book In the Wake: on Blacknessand Being.

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