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"Margaret Earley Whitt explores the canon of the Georgia writer whose work has long haunted and harassed its readers. In a comprehensive survey that encompasses O'Connor's short stories, novels, essays, and letters, as well as the criticism that has proliferated since her death in 1964, Whitt illumines the religious themes and bizarre characters that make O'Connor's prose so strikingly different from other American writers"--Back cover.

A series of vignettes reveal life in the Deep South for African Americans as they experience discrimination in a doctor's office, lynching, and other forms of oppression, especially during the 1960s.

The story of American slavery and Uncle Tom, an African-American man who never lost his dignity under the most inhumane circumstances.

Bibliography: p. 149-157. A critical study of the short fiction, essays, and only novel of the American author.

A critical examination of O'Connor's life and work.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Eudora Welty.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Ellen Glasgow.

Provides an in-depth critical introduction to the short stories of Eudora Welty. Includes a detailed analyses of every significant story, biographical information, a chronology of the artist's life and works, and a representative selection of critical responses.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Ellen Gilchrist.

The Compsons, a genteel Southern family that encountered difficulty after the American Civil War, wrestle with squandered fortunes, incest, madness, complex race relations, and other problems.