{"product_id":"deciphering-race-laura-callanan-9780814251461","title":"Deciphering Race: White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, \u0026 the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose","description":"\u003ci\u003eDeciphering Race\u003c\/i\u003e engages with the complex and contested world of Victorian racial discourse. In the five central texts under consideration in this study-Harriet Martineau's \u003ci\u003eThe Hour and the Man\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert Knox's \u003ci\u003eThe Races of Men, \u003c\/i\u003e Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins's \"The Perils of Certain English Prisoners,\" the transcript of the inquiry into the Governor Eyre Controversy, and James Grant's \u003ci\u003eFirst Love and Last Love\u003c\/i\u003e-a white English author or character turns to the aesthetic in order to assuage a sense of anxiety produced by a confrontation with racial otherness. White characters or narrators confront the limitations of preconceived ideologies or the interlacing of oppressions, and subsequently falter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this manner these narratives confront the complexity, indeterminacy, and irrationality of both racial difference and the systems put in place to understand that difference. \u003ci\u003eDeciphering Race\u003c\/i\u003e unpacks this narrative turn to the aesthetic in writings by white English individuals and thus reveals the instability at the heart of cultural understanding of race and racial tropes at mid-century. This series of readings will help to see how figurative structures, while providing a bridge between different cultures and epistemologies, also reinforce a distance that keeps groups separate. Only by disentangling these structures, by addressing and unpacking our assumptions and narratives about those different from ourselves, and by understanding our deep cultural anxiety and investment in these ways of talking about one another, can we begin to create the conditions for productive, local understanding between different cultures, races, and communities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Callanan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814251463\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814251461\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/09\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d","brand":"Laura Callanan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48241107435775,"sku":"9780814251461","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1968176f-823d-4ee5-ab65-ee22aa5607e7.jpg?v=1772652759","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/deciphering-race-laura-callanan-9780814251461","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}