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Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race (Hardcover, New)
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Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race (Hardcover, New)
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Faced with Eudora Welty's preference for the oblique in literary
performances, some have assumed that Welty was not concerned with
issues of race, or even that she was perhaps ambivalent toward
racism. This collection counters those assumptions as it examines
Welty's handling of race, the color line, and Jim Crow segregation
and sheds new light on her views about the patterns,
insensitivities, blindness, and atrocities of whiteness.
Contributors to this volume show that Welty addressed whiteness and
race in her earliest stories, her photography, and her first novel,
Delta Wedding. In subsequent work, including The Golden Apples, The
Optimist's Daughter, and her memoir, One Writer's Beginnings, she
made the color line and white privilege visible, revealing the
gaping distances between lives lived in shared space but separated
by social hierarchy and segregation. Even when black characters
hover in the margins of her fiction, they point readers toward
complex lives, and the black body is itself full of meaning in her
work. Several essays suggest that Welty represented race, like
gender and power, as a performance scripted by whiteness. Her black
characters in particular recognize whiteface and blackface as
performances, especially comical when white characters are unaware
of their role play. Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race also makes
clear that Welty recognized white material advantage and black
economic deprivation as part of a cycle of race and poverty in
America and that she connected this history to lives on either side
of the color line, to relationships across it, and to an uneasy
hierarchy of white classes within the presumed monolith of
whiteness. Contributors: Mae Miller Claxton, Susan V. Donaldson,
Julia Eichelberger, Sarah Ford, Jean C. Griffith, Rebecca Mark,
Suzanne Marrs, Donnie McMahand, David McWhirter, Harriet Pollack,
Keri Watson, Patricia Yaeger.
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