New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race (eBook)

Harriet Pollack (Herausgeber)

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2019 | PDF Single
246 Seiten
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-4968-2618-3 (ISBN)

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A groundbreaking work on race and class in the remarkable writer’s fiction and photography

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Contributions by Jacob Agner, Susan V. Donaldson, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Stephen M. Fuller, Jean C. Griffith, Ebony Lumumba, Rebecca Mark, Donnie McMahand, Kevin Murphy, Harriet Pollack, Christin Marie Taylor, Annette Trefzer, and Adrienne Akins Warfield

The year 2013 saw the publication of Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race, a collection in which twelve critics changed the conversation on Welty’s fiction and photography by mining and deciphering the complexity of her responses to the Jim Crow South. The thirteen diverse voices in New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race deepen, reflect on, and respond to those seminal discussions. These essays freshly consider such topics as Welty’s uses of African American signifying in her short stories and her attention to public street performances interacting with Jim Crow rules in her unpublished photographs. Contributors discuss her adaptations of gothic plots, haunted houses, Civil War stories, and film noir. And they frame Welty’s work with such subjects as Bob Dylan’s songwriting, the idea and history of the orphan in America, and standup comedy. They compare her handling of whiteness and race to other works by such contemporary writers as William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Chester Himes, and Alice Walker. Discussions of race and class here also bring her masterwork The Golden Apples and her novel Losing Battles, underrepresented in earlier conversations, into new focus.

Moreover, as a group these essays provide insight into Welty as an innovative craftswoman and modernist technician, busily altering literary form with her frequent, pointed makeovers of familiar story patterns, plots, and genres.

Autor

Harriet Pollack, College of Charleston, is author of Eudora Welty’s Fiction and Photography: The Body of the Other Woman; editor of Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race and Having Our Way: Women Rewriting Tradition in Twentieth-Century America; and coeditor (with Jacob Agner) of Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden In Plain Sight, (with Christopher Metress) of Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination, and (with Suzanne Marrs) of Eudora Welty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade? She now serves as editor of University Press of Mississippi’s book series Critical Perspectives on Eudora Welty. She has twice served as president of the Eudora Welty Society, has codirected four international Welty conferences including the 2009 Centennial, and in 2008 received the Phoenix Award for outstanding contributions to Welty scholarship.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.12.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Perspectives on Eudora Welty
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Perspectives on Eudora Welty
• Zusatzinfo: 9 b&w illustrations
• Verlagsort: Jackson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: African-American • American Literature • Bob Dylan, “Only a Pawn in Their Game” • Civil Rights • Civil War • Comedy • detective • Feminism • Fiction • Gothic • Haunted House • Ideology • Jim Crow • Judith Butler • Lost Cause • Masculinity • modernism • Noir • orphan • Pastoral • photography, genre • race and ethnicity • race-rape • Segregation • Short Story • Signifying • Slavery • Southern Literature • Terry Eagleton • Toni Morrison • Welty, “A Worn Path” • Welty, Delta Wedding • Welty, Losing Battles • Welty, “Moon Lake” • Welty “The Burning” • Welty, “The Demonstrators” • Welty, The Golden Apples • Welty, “Where is the Voice Coming From” • whiteness • William Faulkner: Hélène Cixous, Medgar Evers
• ISBN-10: 1-4968-2618-3 / 1496826183
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-2618-3 / 9781496826183