After browsing other classmates’ annotated bibliographies, I have revised my scholarly question to be more specific, and therefore, easier to argue and support with evidence:
How does Rankine’s conjunction of experimental literature, through texts, images, and other multi-medias, with utilization of audience spectatorship invite readers to confront the Black experience in America?
How has the English language and literacy been utilized to oppress Black Americans and how does Claudia Rankine push back against this history in her novel Citizen: An American Lyric?
How does Rankine’s writing style, a mix nontraditional (art, film, the avant-garde) with more traditional styles of writing (newspaper, second person, etc.), challenge the way reader’s interact with their daily lives and comment on the deep roots of racism in America?
How does Citizen by Claudia Rankine use different mediums (photography, art, poetry) together in order to blend boundaries in a way that makes us question our personal bias of how we perceive ourselves?
How does Claudia Rankine’s use of multimedia and her poem Citizen as a living document ground the reader in current events that make abstract ideas of race more concrete, pertinent, and personal?
How does Rankine manipulate language, text, and empty space as a way of challenging our expectations about how racial dynamics continue to alienate black people today?
How does Rankine’s nonconformist and avant-garde text question the definition of literary boundaries, and in turn, how does her unique form then comment on the Black experience in America?
After browsing other classmates’ annotated bibliographies, I have revised my scholarly question to be more specific, and therefore, easier to argue and support with evidence:
How does Rankine’s conjunction of experimental literature, through texts, images, and other multi-medias, with utilization of audience spectatorship invite readers to confront the Black experience in America?
How has the English language and literacy been utilized to oppress Black Americans and how does Claudia Rankine push back against this history in her novel Citizen: An American Lyric?
How does Rankine’s writing style, a mix nontraditional (art, film, the avant-garde) with more traditional styles of writing (newspaper, second person, etc.), challenge the way reader’s interact with their daily lives and comment on the deep roots of racism in America?
How does Citizen by Claudia Rankine use different mediums (photography, art, poetry) together in order to blend boundaries in a way that makes us question our personal bias of how we perceive ourselves?
How does Claudia Rankine’s use of multimedia and her poem Citizen as a living document ground the reader in current events that make abstract ideas of race more concrete, pertinent, and personal?
How does Rankine manipulate language, text, and empty space as a way of challenging our expectations about how racial dynamics continue to alienate black people today?
How does Rankine’s nonconformist and avant-garde text question the definition of literary boundaries, and in turn, how does her unique form then comment on the Black experience in America?