Claudia Rankine

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Claudia Rankine (2014)

Claudia Rankine (born January 1, 1963 in Kingston , Jamaica ) is an American writer .

Life

Claudia Rankine's parents came to New York City as migrants in 1970 , where they worked as unskilled hospital aides in the Bronx . She attended Cardinal Spellman High School, Williams College and graduated from Columbia University with an MFA . Rankine taught for nine years at Pomona College in Claremont , California . In 2005 she was inducted into the Academy of American Poets . She held the poetry professorship at Yale University in 2016 .

Her poems have appeared in literary magazines since 1993 and have brought her various awards and grants, and in 1994 her first volume of poetry was published. In 2002 she edited an anthology of contemporary American poetry by women together with Juliana Spahr .

In the volume of poetry Don't Let Me Be Lonely printed in 2004 , she also wrote about James Byrd, who was murdered in the state of Texas in 1998, and about Governor George W. Bush , who was left cold.

In 2014 she published the long poem Citizen: An American Lyric ; the book also includes a list of names of the black bodies - African Americans killed by racist police violence - which is updated between editions. The book won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry in 2014 and the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Collection) in 2015 and received other awards; so it was on the shortlist of the National Book Award in 2014 .

In 2016 Rankine received a MacArthur Fellowship ; she donated the USD 625,000 prize money for the start of the Racial Imaginery Institute. Its first task is to question racism in the United States according to its concept of " whiteness ".

In 2019 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters , in 2020 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Works (selection)

Anthologies
  • with Juliana Spahr (Ed.): American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language . Wesleyan University Press, 2002.
  • with Lisa Sewell (Ed.): American Women Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics . Wesleyan University Press, 2005.

literature

  • Dorsia Smith Silva: Claudia Rankine , in: The Greenwood encyclopedia of American poets and poetry. 4. M - R . Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006 ISBN 0-313-33012-3 , pp. 1342f.
  • Neil Munshi: “All those white women marching - part of me felt: where were you?” . Interview, in: Financial Times , February 25, 2017, p. 3.
  • Christopher Nealon: The Matter of Capital. Poetry and Crisis in the American Century . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011, therein: Chapter Sadness and Securitization: Claudia Rankine , pp. 146–153, annotated excerpt .
  • Cole Swensen ; David St. John (Ed.): American hybrid . New York, NY: Norton, 2009 ISBN 978-0-393-33375-6 , pp. 337-342.
  • Paul Hoover (Ed.): Postmodern American poetry: a Norton anthology . 2nd edition. New York, NY: Norton, 2013 ISBN 978-0-393-34186-7 , pp. 739-743.
  • Dorothy Barrisi: Baby Boom Poetry and the New Zeitgeist . in: The Prairie Schooner, Fall 2009, pp. 191–193, excerpt .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claudia Rankine on britannica.com, accessed April 26, 2017
  2. ^ Claudia Rankine at modernamericanpoetry.org, accessed April 26, 2017
  3. ^ Adam Fitzgerald : 'That's not poetry; it's sociology! ' - in defense of Claudia Rankine's Citizen , in: The Guardian , October 23, 2015
  4. ↑ Steven W Thrasher: Claudia Rankine: why I'm spending $ 625,000 to study whiteness , in: The Guardian , October 19, 2016
  5. ↑ Newly elected members 2019. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed May 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rankine, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston , Jamaica