Citizen

Die Berliner Rede zur Poesie wird am 3. Juni 2025 von der US-amerikanischen Schriftstellerin Claudia Rankine gehalten.Achille Mbembe behauptet, dass vor dem Wort das Bild stand. Die Rolle des Wortes war es, dieses Bild widerzuspiegeln. In einer postfaktischen, 'vernunftfeindlichen' Welt, um es mit Mbembes Worten zu sagen, in der die Rechtsstaatlichkeit von den Gesetzlosen angegriffen wird, sollte das Gesehene die neue Poetik sein. In dem Kampf, durch die Sprache zu dem zu gelangen, was gesehen wird, kämpfen wir jetzt gegen das Verbot von Wörtern und die Überwachung und Zensur sowohl des Denkens als auch der Bewegung. Und trotz der Tatsache, dass Körper von Natur aus mit Bewegung verbunden sind, scheint es, während sich unsere Länder nach rechts bewegen und versuchen, Ressourcen und Reichtum für eine westliche weiße Bevölkerung zu sichern, ein globales Beharren unserer Regierungsorgane auf Nicht-Kohabitation zu geben, so dass sogar die Staatsbürgerschaft ein anfechtbarer Status geworden ist. Dies ermöglicht die Abschiebung von legalen und undokumentierten Personen, deren Geschichten ein umfassenderes Bild der Gegenwart ergeben. Claudia Rankines Berliner Rede zur Poesie befasst sich mit der Art und Weise, wie die unvermeidliche Beziehung des Bildes zur Sprache eine unserer größten Ressourcen bleibt. Wenn die Beziehung zwischen Bild und Text trotz der neuen Regime des 21. Jahrhunderts weiterhin das widerspiegelt, was um uns herum geschieht, dann wird das zum Schweigen Gebrachte und Ausgelöschte auf zufällige und unerwartete Weise präsent bleiben. Mbembe versteht das Geschichtenerzählen so, dass es die Kräfte übersteigt, die es einschränken wollen.

A TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER AND WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR<BR>FINALIST FOR THE 2021 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION <BR><BR>From award-winning writer Claudia Rankine, the stunning follow-up to Citizen and Don't Let Me Be Lonely <BR><BR>'Riveting' Bernardine Evaristo, TLS (Books of the Year)<BR>'Brilliant' Gary Younge, New Statesman (Books of the Year)<BR>'Timely and powerful' Fatima Bhutto, Financial Times<BR>'One of our time's most incisive, brilliant and necessary intellectuals' Seán Hewitt, Irish Times<BR>'Ranking is a writer of genius' Jeremy Noel-Tod, Sunday Times<BR><BR>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?<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Wry, vulnerable and prescient, this is Rankine's most intimate work, less interested in being right than in being true, and being together.

'Startling, clear-eyed, undeniably cool' Observer'Bold, necessary, profound' New Statesman'Exhilarating' Financial TimesTwo friends meet in an art gallery after decades of silence. The idealism that once bound them together fissured and fractured under the weight of collective and personal griefs. Through their memories of youthful certainty, the antagonism of their conversation and the embers of their enduring kinship, they navigate the wreckage of our world today - the hope, the anger and the exhaustion.In her most personal and emotionally resonant writing yet, Claudia Rankine blends narrative, memory and criticism in a poignant exploration of the beautiful but complicated friendships that we rely on to unsettle us, to make us better - exposing the fiction in the facts of our lives and demanding action in our time of relentless loss.

'Exquisite . . . readers will find themselves transformed by it' Claire Lynch<BR>'Stunning . . . dazzlingly laser-like and movingly original' Lara Feigel<BR>'Inventive and searching' Calvin Bedient<BR>'I am awestruck . . . a masterpiece' Mary Gordon<BR><BR>The stunningly original exploration of pregnancy and childbirth by the acclaimed author of Citizen<BR><BR>In this, the landmark achievement that crowned the first phase of her writing career, Claudia Rankine invites us into the lives of Liv and her husband Erland, as they find themselves propelled into the classic plot: boy loves girl, girl gets pregnant. The couple's journey is charted through dreams, conversations and reflections, in a text like no other, deftly moulding language and crossing genres to arrive at new life: baby Ersatz.<BR><BR>Plot is an inventive and engrossing meditation on pregnancy and the changes it heralds: the potential bodily cost, the loss of self, the sense of impending stasis. Each fear compounds Liv's reluctance to bring new life into a bewildering world. A profoundly daring collection, it explodes the emotive capabilities of language and form to achieve an unparalleled understanding of creation and existence.

Dieses Buch ist eine Erkundung der persönlichen und politischen Unruhen des frühen 21. Jahrhunderts. In einer Mischung aus lyrischer Meditation und autobiografischem Essay folgt Claudia Rankine den Spuren der Einsamkeit in unserer Gegenwart: Ein Nachdenken über das Wechselverhältnis von Tod und Fernsehen, die USA nach dem 11. September, Psychopharmaka und das rettende Potenzial der Sprache - poetisch und glasklar, voller Klugheit, intellektuellem Witz und Melancholie.Claudia Rankine, geboren 1963 in Jamaika, schreibt Lyrik und Theaterstücke. Sie ist Professorin für Lyrik an der Yale University und Stipendiatin des MacArthur Fellowships. Mit ihren Arbeiten gewann sie viele Preise und Auszeichnungen. 2018 erschien von ihr bei Spector Books bereits Citizen (Volte #5), das von der Kritik viel beachtet und auf die SWR-Bestenliste gewählt wurde.Uda Strätling lebt in Hamburg und hat unter anderem Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Sam Shepard, Joyce Carol Oates und Aldous Huxley übersetzt.This book explores the personal and political unrest of the early twenty-first century. Claudia Rankine crafts a hybrid of autobiographical essay and lyrical meditation to track the loneliness that is prevalent today: a reflection on the interplay of death and television, the USA after 9/11, psychotropic drugs, and the redemptive potential of language-poetic and crystal clear, full of sagacity, intellectual wit, and melancholy.Claudia Rankine, born in Jamaica in 1963, writes poetry and plays. She is professor of poetry at Yale University and a MacArthur Fellow. Her work has won her numerous prizes and awards. In 2018, Spector Books published her critically acclaimed work Citizen (Volte #5), which was selected for the SWR Bestenliste.Uda Strätling lives in Hamburg and has translated such authors as Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Sam Shepard, Joyce Carol Oates, and Aldous Huxley.

WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2015<BR>WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 2015<BR>WINNER OF THE PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD 2015<BR>WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY 2015<BR><BR><BR>'Everywhere were flashes, a siren sounding and a stretched-out roar. Get on the ground. Get on the ground now. Then I just knew.<BR><BR>'And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.'<BR><BR><BR>In this moving, critical and fiercely intelligent collection of prose poems, Claudia Rankine examines the experience of race and racism in Western society through sharp vignettes of everyday discrimination and prejudice, and longer meditations on the violence - whether linguistic or physical - which has impacted the lives of Serena Williams, Zinedine Zidane, Mark Duggan and others.<BR><BR>Citizen weaves essays, images and poetry together to form a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in an ostensibly 'post-race' society.

"Just Us" si apre con un gioco di parole - tra 'justice', giustizia, e 'just us', solo noi, dal suono quasi identico - di cui l'attore Richard Pryor si serviva per descrivere con ironia la solitudine degli afroamericani di fronte alla legge. Assemblando conversazioni, invettive, poesie e immagini, in queste pagine Claudia Rankine affronta le dinamiche razziste della contemporaneità dando spazio a voci e tesi altrui, in particolare quelle dei bianchi offuscati dai loro stessi privilegi, e unendo il racconto autobiografico a commenti e note che mettono in discussione l'autorità delle fonti e delle opinioni riportate. In un momento in cui il suprematismo bianco allarga i suoi consensi e la politica e le istituzioni americane vivono una crisi senza precedenti, "Just Us" è un invito a smascherare le ipocrisie quotidiane dei nostri luoghi pubblici e privati - i terminal degli aeroporti, i teatri, le cene tra amici, la scuola -, dove la cortesia e la neutralità prosperano dissimulando punti di vista, interessi e pregiudizi diversi. Ironico, delicato, profetico, Just Us è l'opera più intima e complessa di Claudia Rankine, a cui non importa tanto essere giusta, quanto essere vera. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.