O'Donnell Radical Ambivalence

Race in Flannery O'Connor
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8826-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in the Catholic Imagination: The Flannery O'Connor Trust Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Donnell, Angela Alaimo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

O'Donnell Angela Alaimo:
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).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).