American Lyric, American Surveillance, and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12920441 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keegan Cook Finberg (0000-0003-0971-7991, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 326-344 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Women s Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-1476 • E-ISSN: 1754-1484 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/cww/vpab037 |
| OpenAlex | W3214796884 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 14 |
This essay contends that Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) invites an overdue conversation between recent scholarship in lyric theory and writing on racial surveillance, including material on bias in artificial intelligence and disciplinary policing strategies. I argue that Citizen manipulates received structures of the lyric as both a racial and a carceral apparatus and compares those structures to contemporary forms of racial surveillance. Through the revelation of similarity in lyric and surveillance structures, Citizen illustrates a method of reading that exploits lyric history and form to suggest a reorientation of surveillance and a way of coping with its effects. I argue that this new American lyric is invested in participating in public life
American history · Computer security · Conversation · Exploit · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Computer Science · Latin American and Latino Studies · Music History and Culture · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Law
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |