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Flannery O’ Connor’s Radical Reality
Edited by Jan Nordby Gretlund and Karl-Heinz Westarp
“Brevets to Jan Nordby Gretlund and Karl-Heinz Westarp who have once again
discerned and eliminated a weak spot in southern literary scholarship, this time in
the Flannery O’Connor sector. Stemming from a superb group of scholars, the essays
published here do not gloss over the sordidness endemic to O’Connor’s fictional
world; rather they examine its citizens, who have made their world sordid by denying
that it has its roots in God’s creation.”—Lewis A. Lawson, University of Maryland
“Fourteen contributors expand the field of O’Connor scholarship to consider not
only the cultural, political, and religious contexts surrounding the author in the
midcentury South but also to animate her work for the concerns of the twenty-first
century. Essays put O’Connor’s work in conversation with such varied events as the
World Wars, the Cold War, and French Catholic Resistance and with such figures as
Thomas Merton, Truman Capote, and German thinkers from the interwar era.”
—American Literature
“This outstanding group of O’Connor scholars has captured the essence of the juxtaposition of good and evil that were characteristic of Flannery O’Connor’s writing.
. . . No O’Connor collection is complete without this excellent work.”—Georgia
Library Quarterly
Flannery O’Connor’s Radical Reality brings together essays by a number of distinguished O’Connor scholars, four of whom were the writer’s friends, to assess
the impact of the political, religious, and social milieu of her time on novels and
short stories that consistently attract interpretive attention and are rediscovered by
new generations of readers. The contributors mark the current terrain of scholarship on the wry Georgian writer and open new avenues for future explorations in
O’Connor’s work.
December 2007, 216 pages
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Jan Nordby Gretlund is a senior
lecturer in American literature at the
Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark. He is the
author of Eudora Welty’s Aesthetics of
Place and Frames of Southern Mind:
Reflections on the Stoic, Bi-racial, and
Existential South.
Karl-Heinz Westarp served as chair
of the Department of English at the
University of Aarhus in Denmark for
more than ten years. Westarp is the
author of Flannery O’Connor: The
Growing Craft and Precision and Depth
in Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories.
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