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Radical Ambivalence : Race in Flannery O'Connor / Angela Alaimo O'Donnell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the Catholic Imagination: The Flannery O'Connor Trust SeriesPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823288267
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Two Minds -- 1. “Whiteness Vis i ble”: Critical Whiteness Studies and O’Connor’s Fiction -- 2. Race, Politics, and the Double Mind: Flannery’s Correspondence versus O’Connor’s Fiction -- 3. Theology, Religion, and Race: Constant Conversion and the Beginning of Vision -- 4. “Africanist Presence” and the Role of Black Bodies -- 5. The Failure and Promise of Communion -- Acknowledgments -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: 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 It is also the first study to include controversial material from unpublished letters that reveals the complex and troubling nature of O’Connor’s thoughts on the subject.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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Two Minds -- 1. “Whiteness Vis i ble”: Critical Whiteness Studies and O’Connor’s Fiction -- 2. Race, Politics, and the Double Mind: Flannery’s Correspondence versus O’Connor’s Fiction -- 3. Theology, Religion, and Race: Constant Conversion and the Beginning of Vision -- 4. “Africanist Presence” and the Role of Black Bodies -- 5. The Failure and Promise of Communion -- Acknowledgments -- Works Cited -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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