Tag: southern literature

+

+ a late encounter with the enemy, civil war, flannery o'connor, history, lost cause, southern gothic, southern history, southern literature

The Death of the Lost Cause in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Late Encounter With the Enemy”

by Unknown's avatar

Last post, I looked at the ways that Flannery O’Connor confronts the Lost Cause Narrative in “A Late Encounter With the Enemy.” Today, I want to expand upon that discussion some by looking, specifically, at the end of the story when we see Sally and George at her college graduation. In this scene, which takes up the latter quarter of the story, George sits … Read More The Death of the Lost Cause in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Late Encounter With the Enemy”

+

+ a late encounter with the enemy, civil war, flannery o'connor, history, lost cause, southern literature

The Lost Cause in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Late Encounter with the Enemy”

by Unknown's avatar

When I started thinking about my American literary survey course this semester, I knew I wanted to have a story by Flannery O’Connor, partly because I teach in Georgia but also because I wanted to students to see her and other Southern writers in conversation with one another. I thought about doing “A Good Man is Hard to Find” or “Revelation,”but I chose a different story. … Read More The Lost Cause in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Late Encounter with the Enemy”

+ A Worn Path, dry september, ernest j gaines, eudora welty, southern, southern literature, the sky is gray, william faulkner

Nothing Happens in Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path”

by Unknown's avatar

As I was organizing my American literature survey course this semester, I knew that I wanted to center it on short stories. I did this because I wanted to provide students with a broad swath of literature and literary movements from 1865 to the present. With this in mind, I knew, as well, that I wanted to include Ernest Gaines’ “The Sky is Gray,” because, like … Read More Nothing Happens in Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path”

+

+ fairoaks, frank yerby, georgia, georgia literature, southern literature, whiteness

The Lies We Believe in Frank Yerby’s “Fairoaks”

by Unknown's avatar

A few weeks ago, I saw a review of Frank Yerby’s Floodtide (1950) on Twitter. At that point, I hadn’t read Floodtide, and this point, I still haven’t. For some reason, my brain misremembered the review and I started to read Yerby’s Fairoaks (1957), a novel centered on the life of Guy Falks. I didn’t realize my mistake until I started making a Twitter … Read More The Lies We Believe in Frank Yerby’s “Fairoaks”

+

+ georgia literature, lillian e smith, Literature, southern literature, strange fruit

Rereading Lillian Smith’s “Strange Fruit” :Part I

by Unknown's avatar

Sometimes, a book, for whatever reason, does not grab you on the first read through. This was definitely the case with Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit (1944). The first time I read Smith’s bestselling novel, I found it lacking, for a myriad of reasons. I think part of this feeling stemmed from all of the novels I have read, by Black authors, about interracial intimacy, … Read More Rereading Lillian Smith’s “Strange Fruit” :Part I

Archive
Follow me on Twitter
Follow Us

Blog at WordPress.com.