"Eudora Welty and Surrealism" surveys Welty's fiction during the
most productive period of her long writing life. The study shows
how the 1930s witnessed surrealism's arrival in the United States
largely through the products of its visual artists. Welty, a
frequent traveler to New York City, where the surrealists
exhibited, and a keen reader of magazines and newspapers that
disseminated their work, absorbed and unconsciously appropriated
surrealism's perspective in her writing. In fact, Welty's first
solo exhibition of her photographs in 1936 took place next door to
New York's premier venue for surrealist art.
In a series of readings that collectively examine "A Curtain of
Green and Other Stories," "The Wide Net and Other Stories," "Delta
Wedding," "The Golden Apples," and "The Bride of the Innisfallen
and Other Stories," the book reveals how surrealism profoundly
shaped Welty's striking figurative literature. Yet the influence of
the surrealist movement extends beyond questions of style. The
study's interpretations also foreground how her writing refracted
surrealism as a historical phenomenon.
Scattered throughout her stories are allusions to personalities
allied with the movement in the United States, including figures
such as Salvador Dali, Elsa Schiaparelli, Caresse Crosby, Wallace
Simpson, Cecil Beaton, Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth Arden, Joseph
Cornell, and Charles Henri Ford. Individuals such as these and
others whom surrealism seduced often lead unorthodox and
controversial lives that made them natural targets for moral
opprobrium. Eschewing such parochialism, Welty borrowed the idiom
of surrealism to develop modernized depictions of the South, a
literary strategy that revealed not only cultural farsightedness
but great artistic daring."
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