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

O'Donnell, Angela Alaimo

Fordham University Press（2020/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780823287659
• DDC分類 813.54

Full Description

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 It is also the first study to include controversial material from unpublished letters that reveals the complex and troubling nature of O'Connor's thoughts on the subject.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.

Contents

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