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"On the subject of the feminist business" : re-reading Flannery O'Connor / edited by Teresa Caruso.

Title
"On the subject of the feminist business" : re-reading Flannery O'Connor / edited by Teresa Caruso.
Publication
New York : Peter Lang, c2004.

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Additional Authors
Caruso, Teresa.
Description
viii, 166 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
"O'Connor is a groundbreaking collection of critical essays that responds to mainstream feminists theory in approaching." "O'Connor's fiction. These innovative reading provide a fresh re-appraisal of O'Connor's work, revealing how she defines the patriarchal Southern culture in which she lived with subversive depictions of the women who inhabited her worked."--Jacket.
Subject
  • O'Connor, Flannery > Criticism and interpretation
  • Feminism and literature > Southern States > History > 20th century
  • Women and literature > Southern States > History > 20th century
  • Feminist fiction, American > History and criticism
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
O'Connor and the feminine mystique: "the limitations that reality imposed" / Robert Donahoo -- Flannery O'Connor's struggle with patriarchal culture / Virginia Wray -- The betrayal of Ruby Hill and Hulga Hopewell: recognizing feminist concerns in Flannery O'Connor's "A stroke of good fortune" and "Good country people" / Margaret Bauer -- How sacred is the violence in "A view of the woods"? / Marshall Bruce Gentry -- "I forgot what I done": repressed anger and violent fantasy in Flannery O'Connor's "A good man is hard to find" / Dawn Keetley -- Misfit bodies and errant gender: the corporeal feminism of Flannery O'Connor / Natalie Wilson -- Educating Hulga: assault and redemption in Flannery O'Connor's "Good country people" / Christine Atkins -- "Ignoring unmistakable likeness": Mark Fortune's miss-fortune in Flannery O'Connor's "A view of the woods" / Avis Hewitt -- Survival in a patriarchal world: the feminization of Flannery O'Connor / Jody June Schade.
ISBN
0820471496 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2003027813
OCLC
53975505
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library