On the Subject of the Feminist Business: Re-Reading Flannery O'Connor
"O'Connor is a groundbreaking collection of critical essays that responds to mainstream feminists theory in approaching." O'Connor's fiction. These innovative reading provide a fresh re-appraisal of O'Connor's work, revealing how she defines the patriarchal Southern culture in which she lived with subversive depictions of the women who inhabited her worked.
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Caruso (The Behrend College, Pennsylvania State U.) and contributors locate O'Connor within feminist criticism, despite the author's claims that her writing was primarily spiritual and never consciously feminist. Essays include O'Connor's reactions to traditional womanhood, especially to the Southern Belle she could not be; her reactions to patriarchal culture, in which her female background characters exist only to define the male; her exploration of women's violent fantasies and the violence perpetuated on them; and her concept of the corporeal, as she found it in her own female form and disability. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Introduction : "on the subject of the feminist business"1O'Connor and the feminine mystique : "the limitations that reality imposed"9Flannery O'Connor's struggle with patriarchal culture29The betrayal of Ruby Hill and Hulga Hopewell : recognizing feminist concerns in "a stroke of good fortune" and "good country people"40How sacred is the violence in "a view of the woods"?64"I forgot what done" : repressed anger and violent fantasy in "a good man is hard to find"74Misfit bodies and errant gender : the corporeal feminism of Flannery O'Connor94Educating Hulga : re-writing seduction in "good country people"120"Ignoring unmistakable likeness" : Mark Fortune's miss-fortune in "a view of the woods"129Survival in a patriarchal world155
