Church W/O the Church

by M.K. Shaddix

In the Fifty years since her Death, Flannery O'Connor studies have been conventionally delimited to two critical parameters: the South and the Church of Rome. This work challenges the conception of O'Connor as inherent to a monolithic South and to orthodox Roman Catholicism by problematizing the "Southern Gothic" trope, positing a non-canonical Southern realism, and repositioning O'Connor as essentially ecumenical in her private theology. The study...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881465283
• ISBN13: 9780881465280
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Mercer University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.0"