Eudora Welty and politics : did the writer crusade? / edited by Harriet Pollack and Suzanne Marrs

Published:: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2001]
Copyright Date:: ©2001
Physical Description:: viii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Additional Creators:: Pollack, Harriet and Marrs, Suzanne

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Eudora Welty and politics : did the writer crusade? / Harriet Pollack -- Welty's transformations of the public, the private, and the political / Peggy Prenshaw -- Engaging the political : in our texts, in our classrooms / Noel Polk -- "The huge fateful stage of the outside world" : Eudora Welty's life in politics / Suzanne Marrs -- "Racial content espied" : modernist politics, textuality, and race in Eudora Welty's "The demonstrators" / Suzan Harrison -- A voice from a Jackson interior : Eudora Welty and the politics of filial piety / Ann Romines -- A "cross-mark ploughed into the center" : civil rights and Eudora Welty's losing battles / Rebecca Mark -- "Writing against death" : totalitarianism and the nonfiction of Eudora Welty at midcentury / Barbara Ladd -- Judgements of The ponder heart : Welty's trials of the 1950s / Sharon Deykin Baris -- Private and political thought in One writer's beginnings / Danièle Pitavy-Souques -- Seeing Welty's political vision in her photographs / Harriet Pollack and Suzanne Marrs.

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0807126187 (alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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