id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_solbrcc4vbgftbovbsz5feagva Olivia Djawoto Poetry in the Post-Truth Era: Formal Structures in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric 2017 12 .pdf application/pdf 5332 305 60 Title Poetry in the Post-Truth Era: Formal Structures in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: existing claims of "truth" with one of her own, Rankine, in Citizen: An American Lyric, chooses It is this quotidian conflation of truth and fiction that Claudia Rankine foreshadows in her a post-truth culture and the experience of being black in America. African-Americans are confronted with these self-effacing moments of post-truth when told to veracity of their claims of America's post-racial state, and revealing the artifice of their fiction. American identity, Rankine insists, and even those who believe in America's post-racial state will have In Citizen, Rankine gestures towards this idea by offering fiction as Rather than offering up proofs, Rankine is more interested in renegotiating the persona-reader awareness of their body, Rankine likewise denies the reader the comforts of their own identity as they The reader's discursive experience of the text is thus oriented towards the persona's voice. ./cache/work_solbrcc4vbgftbovbsz5feagva.pdf ./txt/work_solbrcc4vbgftbovbsz5feagva.txt