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Thread: If anyone is teaching Flannery O'Connor this fall, the publication of @AODonnellAngela's important new book RADICAL AMBIVALENCE: RACE IN FLANNERY O'CONNOR ( @FordhamPress) has basically laid the foundations for a #syllabus on O'Connor and #racism. https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823287659/radical-ambivalence/

Radical Ambivalence

Radical Ambivalence is the first book-length study of Flannery O’Connor’s attitude toward race in her fiction and correspondence. It is also the first st...

https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823287659/radical-ambivalence/

@Paul_R_Elie kicked things off with a piece in the @NewYorker "How Racist Was Flannery O'Connor?" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/22/how-racist-was-flannery-oconnor

How Racist Was Flannery O’Connor?

She has become an icon of American letters. Now readers are reckoning with another side of her legacy.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/22/how-racist-was-flannery-oconnor

Then @HootenWils, editor of O'Connor's unfinished novel, wrote a rebuttal to Elie in @firstthingsmag https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/06/how-flannery-oconnor-fought-racism

How Flannery O’Connor Fought Racism | Jessica Hooten Wilson

O’Connor used her fiction to call for Southerners to repent of racist attitudes.

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/06/how-flannery-oconnor-fought-racism

Then @amyalznauer, author of the new children's book THE STRANGE BIRDS OF FLANNERY O'CONNOR ( @EnchantedLion) wrote an even more trenchant rebuttal to @Paul_R_Elie for @BitterSouth https://bittersoutherner.com/southern-perspective/2020/on-flannery-o-connor-and-race-a-response-to-paul-elie-new-yorker

On Flannery O’Connor & Race — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

Black and feminist scholars have been writing about O'Connor's racism — and her brilliance — for decades.

https://bittersoutherner.com/southern-perspective/2020/on-flannery-o-connor-and-race-a-response-to-paul-elie-new-yorker

Today I published an essay at @ChurchLifeND considering Elie's allegations and Hooten Wilson's rebuttal in an attempt to question what we talk about when we talk about fiction being racist, "fighting racism," or being anti-racist. https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/flannery-oconnor-didnt-care-if-you-liked-her-work/

Flannery O’Connor Didn't Care If You Liked Her Work

David Griffith on the need to reframe the Flannery O'Connor and racism debate.

https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/flannery-oconnor-didnt-care-if-you-liked-her-work/

What other articles should we add to this thread? #FlanneryOConnor #racism #antiracism #syllabus #BlackCatholicsyllabus

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