Entre la invisibilidad y la hipervisibilidad: la experiencia del racismo en Citizen. An American Lyric de Claudia Rankine
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2023-06
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Universidad Andrés Bello
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En este artículo analizo Citizen. An American Lyric (2014) de la escritora jamaicano-estadounidense Claudia Rankine. Citizen
ofrece una aproximación multimodal y polifónica al racismo en Estados Unidos y se centra en el impacto que este tiene sobre las vidas de las personas y comunidades negras, que son sometidas a experiencias cotidianas, repetitivas e insidiosas de microagresiones raciales, a la vez que viven con el miedo a ser víctimas de la violencia policial, o que esta les arrebate a sus seres queridos. Citizen yuxtapone escenas de microagresiones racistas con otras en las que la violencia es manifiesta, dando cuenta del complejo engranaje que produce y perpetúa el racismo en Estados Unidos. Propongo también en mi lectura que el eje
de invisibilidad e hipervisibilidad presente en el libro expone aspectos centrales de las experiencias de discriminación que
afectan a la población afroestadounidense.
In this article I analyze Citizen. An American Lyric (2014) by Jamaican-American writer Claudia Rankine. Citizen offers a multimodal and polyphonic approach to racism in the United States, addressing its impact on the lives of black individuals and communities. Black people are subjected to daily, repetitive and insidious experiences of racial micro-aggression, while living in fear of police violence. Citizen juxtaposes scenes of racist micro aggressions with others in which racist violence is overt, providing an account of the complex mechanism that produces and reproduces racism in the United States. My reading of Citizen also proposes that the axis of invisibility and hypervisibility in the book allows us to account for central aspects of the experiences of discrimination suffered by the African-American population.
In this article I analyze Citizen. An American Lyric (2014) by Jamaican-American writer Claudia Rankine. Citizen offers a multimodal and polyphonic approach to racism in the United States, addressing its impact on the lives of black individuals and communities. Black people are subjected to daily, repetitive and insidious experiences of racial micro-aggression, while living in fear of police violence. Citizen juxtaposes scenes of racist micro aggressions with others in which racist violence is overt, providing an account of the complex mechanism that produces and reproduces racism in the United States. My reading of Citizen also proposes that the axis of invisibility and hypervisibility in the book allows us to account for central aspects of the experiences of discrimination suffered by the African-American population.
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Indexación: Revista UNAB.
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Claudia Rankine, Citizen, Racismo, Racism
Citación
Revista de Humanidades Nº 47 (enero-junio 2023): 11-31
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https://doi.org/10.53382/issn.2452-445X.693