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| Named Person: | Eudora Welty; Carson McCullers; Flannery O'Connor; McCullers; O'Connor; Welty; Eudora Welty; Carson McCullers; Flannery O'Connor |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Louise Hutchings Westling |
| ISBN: | 0820307467 9780820307466 |
| OCLC Number: | 11044872 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xi, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- The Blight of Southern Womanhood -- Growing Up in the Modern South -- The Enchanted Maternal Garden of Delta Wedding -- Venturesome Daughters -- Tomboys and Revolting Femininity -- Good Country People -- O'Conner's Sacred Landscapes -- Place, Freedom, and Feminine Identity. |
| Responsibility: | Louise Westling. |
Abstract:
In Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens, Louise Westling explores how the complex, difficult roles of women in southern culture shaped the literary worlds of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor. Tracing the cultural heritage of the South, Westling shows how southern women reacted to the violent, false world created by their men-a world in which women came to be shrouded as icons of purity in atonement for the sins of men. Exposing the actual conditions of women's lives, creating assertive protagonists who resist or revise conventional roles, and exploring rich matriarchal traditions and connections to symbolic landscapes Welty, McCullers, and O'Connor created a body of fiction that enriches and complements the patriarchal version of southern life presented in the works of William Faulkner, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and William Styron. -publisher description.
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- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
- American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
- Welty, Eudora, -- 1909-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- McCullers, Carson, -- 1917-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- O'Connor, Flannery -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Southern States -- In literature.
- Landscapes in literature.
- Mujeres en la literatura.
- Novela americana -- Mujeres como autoras -- Historia y crítica.
- McCullers -- Carson.
- O'Connor -- Flannery.
- Welty -- Eudora.
- Welty, Eudora
- McCullers, Carson
- O'Connor, Flannery
- Roman
- USA -- Südstaaten
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