Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O¿Connor, the first book-length study of O¿Connor¿s complex and sometimes troubling attitude towards race in her fiction and correspondence, contends that O¿Connor¿s race-haunted writing serves as the literary incarnation of her uncertainty about the great question of her era and of her urgent need, despite considerable reluctance, to address the fraught relationship between the races.
Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O¿Connor, the first book-length study of O¿Connor¿s complex and sometimes troubling attitude towards race in her fiction and correspondence, contends that O¿Connor¿s race-haunted writing serves as the literary incarnation of her uncertainty about the great question of her era and of her urgent need, despite considerable reluctance, to address the fraught relationship between the races.
Angela Alaimo O¿Donnell is a professor, writer, and poet at Fordham University and the Associate Director of Fordham¿s Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. Among her recent books are Flannery O¿Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith (Liturgical, 2015) and Andalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery O¿Connor (Paraclete, 2020).
Inhaltsangabe
List of Abbreviations ix Introduction: Two Minds 1 1 Whiteness Visible : Critical Whiteness Studies and O Connor s Fiction 13 2 Race, Politics, and the Double Mind: Flannery s Correspondence versus O Connor s Fiction 36 3 Theology, Religion, and Race: Constant Conversion and the Beginning of Vision 70 4 Africanist Presence and the Role of Black Bodies 97 5 The Failure and Promise of Communion 125 Acknowledgments 145 Works Cited 149 Index 155
List of Abbreviations ix Introduction: Two Minds 1 1 Whiteness Visible : Critical Whiteness Studies and O Connor s Fiction 13 2 Race, Politics, and the Double Mind: Flannery s Correspondence versus O Connor s Fiction 36 3 Theology, Religion, and Race: Constant Conversion and the Beginning of Vision 70 4 Africanist Presence and the Role of Black Bodies 97 5 The Failure and Promise of Communion 125 Acknowledgments 145 Works Cited 149 Index 155
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