A Peculiarly Southern Form of Ugliness: Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor

Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor have all acknowledged in one way or another the ugliness that saturates their fictional worlds, an ugliness that is so frequently embodied-literally-in their female characters. Here, Gleeson-White concentrates on those texts that are most re...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Southern literary journal 2003-09, Vol.36 (1), p.46-57
1. Verfasser:	Gleeson-White, Sarah
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	African Americans American literature Ballads Criticism and interpretation Curtains Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895) Femininity McCullers, Carson McCullers, Carson (1917-1967) Morrison, Toni (1931-2019) Novels O Connor, Flannery (1925-1964) O'Connor, Flannery Personal appearance Slave narratives Social aspects Ugliness Violence against women Walker, Alice (1944- ) Welty, Eudora Welty, Eudora (1909-2001) White people Women Womens history Writers
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Zusammenfassung:	Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor have all acknowledged in one way or another the ugliness that saturates their fictional worlds, an ugliness that is so frequently embodied-literally-in their female characters. Here, Gleeson-White concentrates on those texts that are most readily recognized as grotesque-Welty's A Curtain of Green, McCullers' The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, and O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find-in order to reinvigorate an understanding of a peculiarly southern form of ugliness.
ISSN:	0038-4291 1534-1461 2470-9506 1534-1461 2474-8102
DOI:	10.1353/slj.2003.0032