Eudora Welty's Fiction and Photography: The Body of the Other Woman

by Harriet Pollack

Book Overview

Drawing on the context in which the protection of the white female body is linked with guarding the U.S. southern body politic, Harriet Pollack traces a pattern in Eudora Welty's fiction in which a sheltered middle-class daughter is disturbed or delighted by an other-class woman who takes pleasure in "making a spectacle" of her corporeal self.

Welty herself seeks a parallel self-exposure both through these stories that pair protected girls...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820348708
• ISBN13: 9780820348704
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"