Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O'Connor (Studies in the Catholic Imagination: The Flannery O'Connor Trust Series) by Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

Radical Ambivalence is the first book-length study of Flannery O'Connor's attitude towards race in her fiction and correspondence. It is also the first study to include controversial material from unpublished letters that reveals the complex and troubling nature of O'Connor's thoughts on the subject. O'Connor lived and did most of her writing in her native Georgia during the tumultuous years of the Civil Rights movement. In one of her letters, O'Connor frankly expresses her double-mindedness regarding the social and political upheaval taking place in the U.S. with regard to race: "I hope that to be of two minds about some things is not to be neutral." Radical Ambivalence explores this double-mindedness, and how it manifests itself in O'Connor's fiction.

• | Author: Angela Alaimo O'Donnell
• | Publisher: Fordham University Press
• | Publication Date: June 02, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0823288242
• | ISBN-13: 9780823288243