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Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O'Connor
Contributor(s): O'Donnell, Angela Alaimo (Author)

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 ISBN: 0823287653     ISBN-13: 9780823287659
Publisher: Fordham University Press
OUR PRICE: $31.35  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - General
- Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations
- Religion | Christianity - Catholic
Dewey: 813.54
LCCN: 2020000615
Series: Studies in the Catholic Imagination: The Flannery O'Connor Trust
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.58 lbs) 192 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Catholic
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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Publisher 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 It is also the first study to include controversial material from unpublished letters that reveals the complex and troubling nature of O'Connor's thoughts on the subject.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.

Contributor Bio(s): O'Donnell, Angela Alaimo: - Angela Alaimo O'Donnell is a professor, writer, and poet at Fordham University and is 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).
 
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