TY - BOOK ID - 77442600 TI - Producing American races : Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison PY - 1999 SN - 082232329X 082232363X 9780822323297 0822397668 1322047553 PB - Durham, NC : Duke University Press, DB - UniCat KW - African Americans in literature KW - African Americans KW - American fiction KW - Literature and society KW - Race in literature KW - Whites in literature KW - Whites KW - Negritude KW - Afro-Americans in literature KW - Negroes in literature KW - Race identity KW - History and criticism KW - History KW - Ethnic identity KW - Faulkner, William, KW - James, Henry KW - Morrison, Toni KW - Dzheĭms, G. KW - Dzheĭms, Genri, KW - Jeimsŭ, Henri, KW - Джеймс, Генри, KW - ג׳יימס, הנרי, KW - ג׳ײמס, הנרי, KW - Τζειος, Χενρι, KW - جميس، هينري، KW - جيمز، هنرى KW - Falkner, William, KW - Fōkunā, Wiriamu, KW - Фолкнер, Уильям, KW - Folkner, Uilʹi︠a︡m, KW - Fo-kʻo-na, KW - Phōkner, Ouilliam, KW - Fo-kʻo-na, Wei-lien, KW - Fu-kʻo-na, KW - Fu-kʻo-na, Wei-lien, KW - Falkner, William Cuthbert, KW - Pʻookʻŭnŏ, William, KW - Foḳner, Ṿilyam, KW - Pʻolkneri, Uiliam, KW - K̲apākn̲ar, Villiyam, KW - Fāknir, Vīlīyām, KW - פוקנר KW - פוקנר, וויליאם KW - פוקנר, ויליאם, KW - פוקנר, ןיליאם KW - 福克纳威廉, KW - Trueblood, Ernest V., KW - Wofford, Chloe Anthony KW - Morrisonová, Toni KW - מוריסון, טוני KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Thematology KW - Sociology of literature KW - Faulkner, William KW - Race in literature. KW - African Americans in literature. KW - Whites in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Race identity. KW - James, Henry, KW - White persons KW - Ethnology KW - Caucasian race KW - White people in literature. KW - White people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77442600 AB - 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. ER -