The Question and Answer section for Citizen: An American Lyric is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
In context, the author is referring to the weight of memory, the racial insults, the slights, and the mistreatment by other players. The question itself responds to an incident at the 2004 U.S. Open, during which, Williams loses her temper after a...
Rankine switches between several speakers, although the reader may not be informed of these switches at all. In interviews, Rankine says that the stories are collected from a wide range of different people: black, white, male, and female. At...
Like in Sections IV and III, Rankine puts special focus on the body and its potentials to be made known. In particular, the narrator considers what her own voice sounds like. This has many meanings. The voice is a symbol for the self. We often say...
