Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O'Connor (1) (Studies in the Catholic Imagination: The Flannery O'Connor Trust Series)

By: null Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

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Synopsis: Radical Ambivalence is the first book-length study of Flannery O’Connor’s attitude toward race in her fiction and correspondence. It is also the first study to include controversial material from unpublished letters that reveals the complex and troubling nature of O’Connor’s thoughts on the subject. O’Connor lived and did most of her writing in her native Georgia during the tumultuous years of the civil rights movement. In one of her letters, O’Connor frankly expresses her double-mindedness regarding the social and political upheaval taking place in the United States with regard to race: “I hope that to be of two minds about some things is not to be neutral.” Radical Ambivalence explores this double-mindedness and how it manifests itself in O’Connor’s fiction.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 192 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780823288250
Related ISBNs:: 9780823287659, 9780823288243
Publisher:: Fordham University Press
Date of Addition:: 02/05/25
Copyrighted By:: Fordham University Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies, Language Arts
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