{"product_id":"flannery-oconnor-in-the-age-avis-hewitt-9781572338791","title":"Flannery O'Connor in the Age of Terrorism: Essays on Violence and Grace","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn any age, humans wrestle with apparently inexorable forces. Today, we face the threat of global terrorism. In the aftermath of September 11, few could miss sensing that a great evil was at work in the world. In Flannery O'Connor's time, the threats came from different sources-World War II, the Cold War, and the Korean conflict-but they were just as real. She, too, lived though a \"time of terror.\" The first major critical volume on Flannery O'Connor's work in more than a decade, Flannery O'Connor in the Age of Terrorism explores issues of violence, evil, and terror-themes that were never far from O'Connor's reach and that seem particularly relevant to our present-day setting. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The fifteen essays collected here offer a wide range of perspectives that explore our changing views of violence in a post-9\/11 world and inform our understanding of a writer whose fiction abounds in violence. Written by both established and emerging scholars, the pieces that editors Avis Hewitt and Robert Donahoo have selected offer a compelling and varied picture of this iconic author and her work. Included are comparisons of O'Connor to 1950s writers of noir literature and to the contemporary American novelist Cormac McCarthy; cultural studies that draw on horror comics of the Cold War and on Fordism and the American mythos of the automobile; and pieces that shed new light on O'Connor's complex religious sensibility and its role in her work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e While continuing to speak fresh truths about her own time, O'Connor's fiction also resonates deeply with the postmodern sensibilities of audiences increasingly distant from her era-readers absorbed in their own terrors and sense of looming, ineffable threats. This provocative new collection presents O'Connor's work as a touchstone for understanding where our culture has been and where we are now. With its diverse approaches, \u003ci\u003eFlannery O'Connor in the Age of Terrorism\u003c\/i\u003e will prove useful not only to scholars and students of literature but to anyone interested in history, popular culture, theology, and reflective writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Avis Hewitt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1572338792\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781572338791\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Tennessee Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/09\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Avis Hewitt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46685982163199,"sku":"9781572338791","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1fe35ace-e9fd-428b-a7fe-86af9e487bf3.jpg?v=1741727345","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/flannery-oconnor-in-the-age-avis-hewitt-9781572338791","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}