![]() ![]() The patient approaches their therapist’s house and rings the doorbell: “When the door finally opens, the woman standing there yells at the top of her lungs, Get away from my house! What are you doing in my yard? It’s as if a wounded Doberman pinscher or a German shepherd has gained the power of speech. ![]() In this incident, the reader is placed in the shoes of a patient that has only spoken to their therapist on the phone. The book is narrated in the second person making the microaggressions feel inescapable & immediate.Įarly in her book, Rankine documents a visit to a therapist that specializes in trauma counseling. Citizen features a collection of microaggressions interwoven with lyric essays, poetry, and visual art. In other words, the victim sees a horrific image of themselves. ![]() Have you ever seen yourself through another’s eyes? What did it look like? Was it ugly, terrible, horrifying? Claudia Rankine’s book Citizen: An American Lyric, among other things, illustrates how a lens of horror descends during a microaggression. ![]()
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