Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-287) and index.
Contents:
Monsters, monoliths, and Middle Georgia: Flannery O'Connor and the "Dear Old Dirty Southland" -- "One Jesus [is] just as bad as another": Orthodoxy as ecumenical blasphemy in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor -- "Just as it is or nothing": Flannery O'Connor's ugly Jesus -- "Lest ye be born again": heretical baptism in "The River" and The Violent Bear it Away -- "Imagin[ing] a vain thing": the undeniable body in "The Enduring Chill," "The Comforts of Home," and "Why do the Heathen Rage?" -- Second coming: Flannery O'Connor in the post-south and Europe.
Summary:
In the fifty years since her death, Flannery O'Connor studies have been conventionally delimited to two critical parameters: the South and the Church of Rome. This work challenges the conception of O'Connor as inherent to a monolithic South and to orthodox Roman Catholicism by problematizing the "Southern Gothic" trope, positing a non-canonical Southern realism, and repositioning O'Connor as essentially ecumenical in her private theology. --Provided by publisher
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