Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O'Connor

Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O'Connor
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Country
United States
Published
2 June 2020
Pages
192
ISBN
9780823288243

Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O'Connor

Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

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 It is also the first study to include controversial material from unpublished letters that reveals the complex and troubling nature of O'Connor’s thoughts on the subject.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