Title Producing American races : Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison / Patricia McKee

Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999 ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (240 pages) Series New Americanists New Americanists. Contents Introduction: 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 Summary In 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 Analysis American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Race in literature Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Political and social views James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Political and social views Morrison, Toni -- Political and social views Whites -- United States -- Race identity Afro-Americans -- Race identity Afro-Americans in literature Whites in literature Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-236) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 fast James, Henry, 1843-1916 fast Morrison, Toni fast Faulkner, William, (1897-1962) -- Pensée politique et sociale. ram Morrison, Toni, (1931- ...) -- Pensée politique et sociale. ram James, Henry, (1843-1916) -- Pensée politique et sociale. ram James, Henry. swd Faulkner, William. swd Morrison, Toni. swd Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Race in literature. Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century White people -- Race identity -- United States African Americans -- Race identity. African Americans in literature. White people in literature Men, White, in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Men, White, in literature African Americans in literature African Americans -- Race identity American fiction Literature and society Race in literature White people in literature White people -- Race identity Ethnische Identität Roman Race -- Dans la littérature. Littérature et société -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle. Noirs américains -- Identité -- Dans la littérature. Noirs américains -- Dans la littérature. United States USA Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822397663 0822397668

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