Producing American Races – Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison Mckee

Producing American RacesHenry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison\nAuthor(s): Patricia McKee\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822323631, 978-0822323631\nSynopsis\nIn 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.\nMcKee provides close readings of six novels-Jamess The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl, Faulkners The Sound and the Fury and Light in August, and Morrisons 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, .