Although this author doesn't really write about the main theme of my paper, this will still be useful because it gives great detail about O'Connors life and what events happened that contributed to her as an author. It gives a good timeline of her many successful stories and gives a little description about a few of the main ones. He does well to to give a little help to my thesis in pointing out a few ironic points in her book of course, concerning black people and there actions or characteristics about their parts in her story.
Flannery O'Connor in the Age of Terrorism : Essays on Violence and Grace
Hewitt, Avis Donahoo, Robert
This particular author compares many of O'Connors major subjects in her short stories. He writes about how her characters in her stories can be compared to zombies and negative figures. He also speaks of her often use of religion and its many incorporation in her stories. A main topic spoke of in his book is racism. This having a major part in my thesis for my paper makes him a key author for me to use and allows for many quotes to tie my paper together. To conclude, this book talks a lot on how Flannery O'Connor writes and about the many short stories she has written and will be very valuable to my paper.
Recent American Novelists - American Writers 22 : University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers No. 22 Ludwig, Jack
After reading Ludwig's book he writes about O'Connor and some other similar authors with the same styles as she has. He speaks of how in 20th century southern literature revolves around heir ways and its many issues when African Americans were looked at as less equal than white people. He talks about other popular authors that had similar styles to O'Connor and how they all seemed to be based around blacks, Bible, and violence. He makes great strides to show how even though she does write dark literature, it is suppose to have some comic relief for the story. This will be a strong point in my paper and ultimately help to make me paper thesis strong and add a different perspective of comparison to other authors of the time.
Dirt and Desire : Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930-1990
Yaeger, Patricia
This book is going to be a great secondary source for my paper. It is based on southern women writers which Flannery O'Connor is. Living in Georgia her entire life being raised in a time where blacks were treated less than equal this author, Patricia Yaeger, talks about monstrosity and violence present in O'Connors stories. Her use in describing certain things in her stories that is in some way or another tied to her feelings of racism and how things were in Georgia in the mid 20th century with black people and the Jim Crow Laws. Yaeger also speaks of O'Connors inner battle with the way things were before with black people and the changes that are slowly making everything change for southerners.
This looks good structurally. It sounds like you have some interesting sources that are going to help make your paper very interesting!!
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