{"product_id":"sign-language-ruth-reiniche-9780881467406","title":"Sign Language","description":"Flannery O'Connor is unique in that she is not only familiar with seventeenth-century emblematic representations of scriptural truth, but she is also knowledgeable of the conventions of twentieth-century art forms. Her characters are illuminated by textual images formulated from the juxtaposition of scripture, seventeenth- and twentieth-century archetypes, and street detritus that inhabits pictorial sequences exceeding the boundaries of time and diachronically upending O'Connor's narrative world. Her undergraduate single panel cartoons are an excellent starting point when tracing the chronological development of her stylized graphic narrative. The idea of tattooing graphic text on the human body first occurs in the manuscript of WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE? and then in her last story, Parker's Back. Flannery O'Connor's graphic narrative, a sign language of dots and lines, discarded objects, and the mutilation of human bodies, provides a stark illuminated manuscript for her readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ruth Reiniche\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0881467405\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780881467406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mercer University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.90w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2021","brand":"Ruth Reiniche","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49096782479615,"sku":"9780881467406","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sign-language-ruth-reiniche-9780881467406","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}