Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O'Connor by Angela Alaimo O'Donnell (Engli

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 It is also the first study to include controversial material from unpublished letters that reveals the complex and troubling nature of O'Connor's thoughts on the subject.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

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Angela Alaimo O'Donnell is a professor, writer, and poet at Fordham University and 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).

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations | ixIntroduction: Two Minds | 11 "Whiteness Visible": Critical Whiteness Studies and O'Connor's Fiction | 132 Race, Politics, and the Double Mind: Flannery's Correspondence versus O'Connor's Fiction | 363 Theology, Religion, and Race: Constant Conversion and the Beginning of Vision | 704 "Africanist Presence" and the Role of Black Bodies | 975 The Failure and Promise of Communion | 125Acknowledgments | 145Works Cited | 149Index | 155

Review

This is the first significant book-length work to address race in O'Connor... By focusing on ambivalence as the primary attitude that O'Connor held toward African Americans and toward political and social questions bound up with race in the U.S. South, Radical Ambivalence provides the most nuanced account of what there is to be said on the topic thus far.---Thomas F. Haddox, University of TennesseeAny future discussion of O'Connor and race must take Radical Ambivalence as its necessary point of departure.-- "Christianity & Literature"As the country continues to reel from racial injustice and police brutality, many American find themselves once again questioning their legacy of white privilege and their own complicity in structural racism. Angela Alaimo O'Donnell's new book, Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O'Connor, is a welcome opportunity for readers to grapple with this legacy in the life and work of one of the most talented writers of the 20th century.-- "America Magazine"Representation of race in O'Connor's fiction has been addressed in articles and book chapters, but Radical Ambivalence is the first book devoted exclusively to the subject.-- "Choice"Few scholars have considered O'Connor's talent and life with as much depth and breadth as Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, aFordham University professor who has written critical examinations of O'Connor's work and life, and has even channeledthe classic story writer's voice in poems. O'Donnell's appreciation for O'Connor makes her the perfect critic to write a necessary, complex book about O'Connor's views on race. Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O'Connor is a significant, challenging work of criticism.---Nick Ripatrazone, Angelus News

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This is the first significant book-length work to address race in O'Connor... By focusing on ambivalence as the primary attitude that O'Connor held toward African Americans and toward political and social questions bound up with race in the U.S. South, Radical Ambivalence provides the most nuanced account of what there is to be said on the topic thus far. ---Thomas F. Haddox, University of Tennessee

Competing Titles

Jay, Faulkner and Whiteness (University Press of Mississippi, 2011) Wilson, Whiteness in the Novels of Charles Chesnutt (University Press of Mississippi, 2009) Watson, The Souls of White Folk (University Press of Mississippi, 2015)

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Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O'Connor is the first book-length study of the complex and sometimes troubling attitude towards race evident in the work of one of our foremost American writers.

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Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O'Connor is the first book-length study of the complex and sometimes troubling attitude towards race evident in the work of one of our foremost American writers.

Details ISBN0823288242 Author Angela Alaimo O'Donnell Pages 192 Publisher Fordham University Press Series Studies in the Catholic Imagination: The Flannery O'Connor Trust Series Year 2020 ISBN-10 0823288242 ISBN-13 9780823288243 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2020-06-02 Imprint Fordham University Press Subtitle Race in Flannery O'Connor Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 813.54 Short Title Radical Ambivalence Language English UK Release Date 2020-06-02 AU Release Date 2020-06-02 NZ Release Date 2020-06-02 US Release Date 2020-06-02 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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