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    A Study Guide for Claudia Rankine's "From Citizen, VI [On the Train the Woman Standing]"
    A Study Guide for Claudia Rankine's "From Citizen, VI [On the Train the Woman Standing]"
    A Study Guide for Claudia Rankine's "From Citizen, VI [On the Train the Woman Standing]"
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    A Study Guide for Claudia Rankine's "From Citizen, VI [On the Train the Woman Standing]"

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    A Study Guide for Claudia Rankine's "from Citizen, VI [On the train the woman standing]", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMay 15, 2018
    ISBN9781410393845
    A Study Guide for Claudia Rankine's "From Citizen, VI [On the Train the Woman Standing]"

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      From Citizen, VI [On the Train the Woman Standing]

      Claudia Rankine

      2014

      Introduction

      The 2014 collection Citizen: An American Lyric, by award-winning writer Claudia Rankine, is a thought-provoking, uniquely styled statement about race issues in the United States in the twenty-first century. The book gathers everything from short anecdotes about the thoughtless remarks of coworkers to samples of visual art to pieces addressing racial aggression and violence. A well-known prose poem found in section VI of this volume is sometimes referred to by its opening phrase, On the train the woman standing. The poem depicts the subtlety of racism faced by African Americans every day in modern society, describing an empty seat on a train declined by a female passenger because she is afraid of the man sitting next to it. Rankine cleverly confronts the reader with the woman's passive racism by casting the poem completely in the second person, forcing the reader to imagine one's own reaction to the situation.

      Author Biography

      Rankine was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on January 1, 1963. When she was seven years old, her family moved from Jamaica to New York. They settled in the Bronx, and Rankine was enrolled in a Catholic elementary school. She continued in parochial schools until her high-school graduation. Rankine then matriculated at Williams College, where she studied under Louise Glü ck, a talented poet who later earned a Pulitzer Prize and was named the US poet laureate. After receiving a bachelor's degree in 1986, Rankine continued her studies at Columbia University, earning a master of fine arts degree.

      Through the first two decades of her career as a poet, Rankine has published five collections. Her first, Nothing in Nature Is Private (1994), was awarded the Cleveland State Poetry

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