WHITE FLIGHTS

A bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your Face in MineWhite Flights is a medit ation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the boo k, 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 Mar ilynne Robi...[Llegir més]