Counter-Currents
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Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O’Connor
New York: Fordham University Press, 2020
It’s old news that Flannery O’Connor, dead since 1964, has taken some flak for writing letters in which she said she didn’t much like black people.
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Good read. Enjoyed it a great deal.
I’ve been re-reading her short story collection A Good Man Is Hard To Find, which I haven’t read since college. I’d forgotten how wonderfully allegorical most of her stories are. She never beat her readers over the head with whatever her underlying themes (which would be called “messages” these days) happened to be—you have to look for them. Good Country People and of course the title story are my standout favorites so far. Anyway, as I’m guessing it would for most readers of this magazine, the revelations regarding her “racism” just make me love her that much more.
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