LEADER 04469nam 22007454 450 001 9910786898003321 005 20230321164921.0 010 $a0-8223-2363-X 010 $a0-8223-9766-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822397663 035 $a(CKB)3710000000216435 035 $a(OCoLC)891395190 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10905162 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001291443 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11735433 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001291443 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11247431 035 $a(PQKB)10337362 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3007941 035 $a(OCoLC)1140723826 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse80513 035 $a887745426 035 $a(DE-B1597)554148 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822397663 035 $a(OCoLC)1229161443 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000216435 100 $a20140818d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aProducing American races $eHenry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison /$fPatricia McKee 210 1$aDurham, NC :$cDuke University Press,$d1999. 215 $a1 online resource (252 p.) 225 1 $aNew Americanists 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-04755-3 311 $a0-8223-2329-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [207]-236) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: race and media -- Reproducing whiteness: The wings of the dove -- Collective whiteness in The golden bowl -- Self-division as racial divide: The sound and the fury -- Playing white men in Light in August -- Black spaces in Sula -- Off the record: Jazz and the production of Black culture. 330 $aIn Producing American Races Patricia McKee examines three authors who have powerfully influenced the formation of racial identities in the United States: Henry James, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison. Using their work to argue that race becomes visible only through image production and exchange, McKee illuminates the significance that representational practice has had in the process of racial construction.McKee provides close readings of six novels?James?s The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl, Faulkner?s The Sound and the Fury and Light in August, and Morrison?s Sula and Jazz?interspersed with excursions into Lacanian and Freudian theory, critical race theory, epistemology, and theories of visuality. In James and Faulkner, she finds, race is represented visually through media that highlight ways of seeing and being seen. Written in the early twentieth century, the novels of James and Faulkner reveal how whiteness depended on visual culture even before film and television became its predominant media. In Morrison, the culture is aural and oral?and often about the absence of the visual. Because Morrison?s African American communities produce identity in nonvisual, even anti-visual terms, McKee argues, they refute not just white representations of black persons as objects but also visual orders of representation that have constructed whites as subjects and blacks as objects.With a theoretical approach that both complements and transcends current scholarship about race?and especially whiteness?Producing American Races will engage scholars in American literature, critical race theory, African American studies, and cultural studies. It will also be of value to those interested in the novel as a political and aesthetic form. 410 0$aNew Americanists. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRace in literature 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWhite people$xRace identity$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aWhite people in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRace in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aWhite people$xRace identity 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRace identity. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aWhite people in literature. 676 $a813.009/355 700 $aMcKee$b Patricia$f1945-$0678705 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786898003321 996 $aProducing American races$93839773 997 $aUNINA