Contributions by Jacob Agner, Susan V. Donaldson, Sarah Gilbreath
Ford, Stephen M. Fuller, Jean C. Griffith, Ebony Lumumba, Rebecca
Mark, Donnie McMahand, Kevin Murphy, Harriet Pollack, Christin
Marie Taylor, Annette Trefzer, and Adrienne Akins Warfield. The
year 2013 saw the publication of Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race,
a collection in which twelve critics changed the conversation on
Welty's fiction and photography by mining and deciphering the
Complexity of her responses to the Jim Crow South. The thirteen
diverse voices in New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race
deepen, reflect on, and respond to those seminal discussions. These
essays freshly consider such topics as Welty's uses of African
American signifying in her short stories and her attention to
public street performances interacting with Jim Crow rules in her
unpublished photographs. Contributors discuss her adaptations of
gothic plots, haunted houses, Civil War stories, and film noir. And
they frame Welty's work with such Subjects as Bob Dylan's
songwriting, the idea and history of the orphan in America, and
standup comedy. They compare her handling of whiteness and race to
other works by such contemporary writers as William Faulkner,
Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Chester Himes, and Alice Walker.
Discussions of race and class here also bring her masterwork The
Golden Apples and her novel Losing Battles, underrepresented in
earlier conversations, into new focus. Moreover, as a group these
essays provide insight into Welty as an innovative craftswoman and
modernist technician, busily altering literary form with her
frequent, pointed makeovers of familiar story patterns, plots, and
genres.
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