Jon Lance Bacon

Flannery O'Connor and Cold War Culture

Herausgeber: Gelpi, Albert; Posnock, Ross

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reconsiders Flannery O'Connor, known primarily for her Catholicism.

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.

Table of content:
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The invaded pastoral; 2. The domesticated intellectual; 3. Jesus fanatics and communist foreigners; 4. The segregated pastoral; 5. The invisible country; Epilogue; Notes; Index.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 287g
• ISBN-13: 9780521619806
• ISBN-10: 0521619807
• Artikelnr.: 21149909

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The invaded pastoral
2. The domesticated intellectual
3. Jesus fanatics and communist foreigners
4. The segregated pastoral
5. The invisible country
Epilogue
Notes
Index.