Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O'Connor

by Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

Book Overview

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 It is also the first study to include controversial material from unpublished letters that reveals the complex and troubling nature of O'Connor's thoughts on the subject.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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823287653
• ISBN13: 9780823287659
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"