{"product_id":"white-flights-race-fiction-and-the-american-imagination-9781555978327","title":"White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of \u003ci\u003eYour Face in Mine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhite 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 \u003ci\u003eHousekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e to the claustrophobic households in Jonathan Franzen's \u003ci\u003eThe Corrections\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Flights \u003c\/i\u003eaims 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, \u003ci\u003eWhite Flights \u003c\/i\u003eis an essential work of cultural and literary criticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJess Row\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eYour Face in Mine \u003c\/i\u003eand the story collections \u003ci\u003eThe Train to Lo Wu \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNobody Ever Gets Lost\u003c\/i\u003e. One of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e's Best of Young American Novelists of 2007, he lives in New York and teaches at the College of New Jersey.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492884091154,"sku":"9781555978327","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_50fa4b63-2d68-4de3-979f-1e1e62b68553.jpg?v=1730612686","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/white-flights-race-fiction-and-the-american-imagination-9781555978327","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}