| Description |
viii, 268 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Southern literary studies
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Eudora Welty and politics : did the writer crusade? / Harriet Pollack -- Welty's transformations of the public, the private, and the political / Peggy Prenshaw -- Engaging the political : in our texts, in our classrooms / Noel Polk -- "Huge fateful stage of the outside world" : Eudora Welty's life in politics / Suzanne Marrs -- "Racial content espied" : modernist politics, textuality, and race in Eudora Welty's "The demonstrators" / Suzan Harrison -- Voice from a Jackson interior : Eudora Welty and the politics of filial piety / Ann Romines -- "Cross-mark ploughed into the center" : civil rights and Eudora Welty's losing battles / Rebecca Mark -- "Writing against death" : totalitarianism and the nonfiction of Eudora Welty at midcentury / Barbara Ladd -- Judgements of The ponder heart : Welty's trials of the 1950s / Sharon Deykin Baris -- Private and political thought in One writer's beginnings / Daniele Pitavy-Souques -- Seeing Welty's political vision in her photographs / Harriet Pollack and Suzanne Marrs. |
| Subject |
Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001 -- Political and social views.
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Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Political fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Pollack, Harriet.
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Marrs, Suzanne.
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| ISBN |
0807126187 (alk. paper) |
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