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Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race /
"Faced with Eudora Welty's preference for the oblique in literary performances, some have assumed that Welty was not concerned with issues of race, or even that she was perhaps ambivalent toward racism. This collection counters those assumptions as it examines Welty's handling of race...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
2013.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Reading Welty on whiteness and race / Harriet Pollack
- Welty, race, and the patterns of a life / Suzanne Marrs
- Parting the veil: Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, and the crying wounds of Jim Crow / Susan V. Donaldson
- Eudora Welty's Making a Date, Grenada, Mississippi: one photograph, five performances / Keri Watson
- "The Little Store" in the segregated South: race and consumer culture in Eudora Welty's writing and photography / Mae Miller Claxton
- Secret agents: Welty's African Americans / David McWhirter
- Laughing in the dark: race and humor in Delta Wedding / Sarah Ford
- "I Knowed Him Then Like I Know Me Now": whiteness, violence, and interracial male intimacy in Delta Wedding and "Where Is the Voice Coming From?" / Jean C. Griffith
- Bodies on the brink: vision, violence, and self-destruction in Delta Wedding / Donnie McMahand
- "Black Men Dressed in Gold": racial violence in Eudora Welty's "The Burning" / Patricia Yaeger
- Ice picks, guinea pigs, and dead birds: dramatic Weltian possibilities in "The Demonstrators" / Rebecca Mark
- Rethinking the unthinkable: tracing Welty's changing view of the color line in her letters, essays, and The Optimist's Daughter / Julia Eichelberger.