White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination by Row, Jess
White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination by Row, Jess

White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination

A bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your...
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Author: Jess Row
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White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination by Row, Jess

White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination

$42.28
White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination by Row, Jess

White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination

$42.28
Author: Jess Row
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your Face in Mine

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.

Author: Jess Row
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 08/06/2019
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781555978327


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2019 pg. 79
Library Journal 07/01/2019 pg. 68
Booklist 07/01/2019 pg. 10
Shelf Awareness 08/06/2019

About the Author
Jess Row is the author of the novel Your Face in Mine and the story collections The Train to Lo Wu and Nobody Ever Gets Lost. One of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists of 2007, he lives in New York and teaches at the College of New Jersey.
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