{"product_id":"producing-american-races","title":"Producing American Races","description":"In \u003ci\u003eProducing American Races\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003eMcKee provides close readings of six novels—James’s \u003ci\u003eThe Wings of the Dove\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Bowl\u003c\/i\u003e, Faulkner’s \u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLight in August\u003c\/i\u003e, and Morrison’s \u003ci\u003eSula\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJazz\u003c\/i\u003e—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.\u003cbr\u003eWith a theoretical approach that both complements and transcends current scholarship about race—and especially whiteness—\u003ci\u003eProducing American Races\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54222167834968,"sku":"9780822323631","price":26.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780822323631__676f89f542f12.jpg?v=1741159956","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/producing-american-races","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}