"Citizen: An American Lyric" Reading Response Literature Essay

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In the book "An American Lyric" by Claudia Rankine the author begins the first chapter by recalling a period of utter listlessness. A secondary memory of the author is invoked. In the memory, one is recalling the sounds that a body makes particular in the mouth. In this chapter, Claudia Rankine tells the memories from a second-person point of view to invite readers to them at firsthand rather than at a distance. As this chapter continues, the strength of negative feelings increases. In the second chapter of this book, a picture of Hennessy Youngman is displayed. Hennessy on this YouTube Channel asks the black artists to view the video of Rodney King (Rankine, C. (2014). The author explains that this experience was meant to reveal the expectations of anger that is commodified in black arti...