Just Us: An American Conversation - Couverture rigide

Rankine, Claudia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0241467101 ISBN 13 : 9780241467107

Editeur : Allen Lane, 2020

Synopsis

A TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR

From award-winning writer Claudia Rankine, the stunning follow-up to Citizen and Don't Let Me Be Lonely

'Audacious, revelatory, devastating' Robin DiAngelo

At home and in government, contemporary America finds itself riven by a culture war in which aggression and defensiveness alike are on the rise. It is not alone. In such partisan conditions, how can humans best approach one another across our differences?

Taking the study of whiteness and white supremacy as a guiding light, Claudia Rankine explores a series of real encounters with friends and strangers - each disrupting the false comfort of spaces where our public and private lives intersect, like the airport, the theatre, the dinner party and the voting booth - and urges us to enter into the conversations which could offer the only humane pathways through this moment of division.

Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together, and to breach the silence, guilt and violence that surround whiteness. Brilliantly arranging essays, images and poems along with the voices and rebuttals of others, it counterpoints Rankine's own text with facing-page notes and commentary, and closes with a bravura study of women confronting the political and cultural implications of dyeing their hair blonde.

Wry, vulnerable and prescient, this is Rankine's most intimate work, less interested in being right than in being true, and being together.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Claudia Rankine is a poet, essayist and playwright; her numerous works include the ground-breaking American Lyric trilogy, Don't Let Me Be Lonely (2004), Citizen (2014) and Just Us (2020). A chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets, she is recipient of many honours including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Forward Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship. She is a professor of creative writing at New York University, and has previously taught at Pomona College and Yale University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Allen Lane
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241467101
• ISBN 13: 9780241467107
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible