White flights : race, fiction, and the American imagination
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Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2019.
ISBN
9781555978327, 1555978320
Physical Desc
310 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Newport - Adult Non-Fiction | 809.9335 Row | On Shelf |
Providence Public - Level 2 Book Stacks | 810.9355 R876 2019 | On Shelf |
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Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2019.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9781555978327, 1555978320
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308).
Description
"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 DeLillo, 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 McPherson 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."--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Row, J. (2019). White flights: race, fiction, and the American imagination . Graywolf Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Row, Jess. 2019. White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination. Graywolf Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Row, Jess. White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination Graywolf Press, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Row, Jess. White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination Graywolf Press, 2019.
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