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Flannery O'Connor and Cold War Culture

Flannery O'Connor and Cold War Culture

Bacon, Jon Lance
Gelpi, Albert
Posnock, Ross

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 72

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521619807
ISBN13: 9780521619806
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 7 2005
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book reconsiders Flannery O'Connor, known primarily for her Catholicism. By recovering the historical circumstances in which Flannery O'Connor wrote her fiction, Jon Lance Bacon reveals an artist concerned with the cultural effects of the conflict that dominated American political discourse after 1945: the Cold War. O'Connor resisted the consensus that demanded uncritical celebration of American life - including consumerism. Bacon relates her fiction to political texts, sociological studies, advertisements, movies, television programmes, paintings, editorial cartoons and comic books. This interdisciplinary approach transforms O'Connor from a regional writer, with a religious message that transcends social and political questions, into a national figure, with a secure place in literary histories that address such questions.

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