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White Flights Race Fiction And The American Imagination
White Flights Race Fiction And The American Imagination
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Description: A bold incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction by the author of Your Face in Mine White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the book Jess Row ties "white flight" - the movement of white Americans into segregated communities whether in suburbs or newly gentrified downtowns - to white writers setting their stories in isolated or emotionally insulated landscapes from the mountains of Idaho in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping to the claustrophobic households in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections. Row uses brilliant close readings of work from well - known writers such as Don De Lillo Annie Dillard Richard Ford and David Foster Wallace to examine the ways these and other writers have sought imaginative space for themselves at the expense of engaging with race. White Flights aims to move fiction to a more inclusive place and Row looks beyond criticism to consider writing as a reparative act. What would it mean he asks if writers used fiction "to approach each other again"? Row turns to the work of James Baldwin Dorothy Allison and James Alan Mc Pherson to discuss interracial love in fiction while also examining his own family heritage as a way to interrogate his position. A moving and provocative book that includes music film and literature in its arguments White Flights is an essential work of cultural and literary criticism.
Title: White Flights Race Fiction And The American Imagination
Author(s): Row Jess
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781555978327
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/6/2019
Category: Literary Studies: General
Description: A bold incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction by the author of Your Face in Mine White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the book Jess Row ties "white flight" - the movement of white Americans into segregated communities whether in suburbs or newly gentrified downtowns - to white writers setting their stories in isolated or emotionally insulated landscapes from the mountains of Idaho in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping to the claustrophobic households in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections. Row uses brilliant close readings of work from well - known writers such as Don De Lillo Annie Dillard Richard Ford and David Foster Wallace to examine the ways these and other writers have sought imaginative space for themselves at the expense of engaging with race. White Flights aims to move fiction to a more inclusive place and Row looks beyond criticism to consider writing as a reparative act. What would it mean he asks if writers used fiction "to approach each other again"? Row turns to the work of James Baldwin Dorothy Allison and James Alan Mc Pherson to discuss interracial love in fiction while also examining his own family heritage as a way to interrogate his position. A moving and provocative book that includes music film and literature in its arguments White Flights is an essential work of cultural and literary criticism.
Title: White Flights Race Fiction And The American Imagination
Author(s): Row Jess
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781555978327
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/6/2019
Category: Literary Studies: General