{"product_id":"radical-ambivalence-race-in-flannery-oconnor-9780823287659","title":"Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O'Connor","description":"\u003ci\u003eRadical Ambivalence \u003c\/i\u003eis the first book-length study of Flannery O'Connor's attitude toward race in her fiction and correspondence. It is also the first study to include controversial material from unpublished letters that reveals the complex and troubling nature of O'Connor's thoughts on the subject. O'Connor lived and did most of her writing in her native Georgia during the tumultuous years of the civil rights movement. In one of her letters, O'Connor frankly expresses her double-mindedness regarding the social and political upheaval taking place in the United States with regard to race: \"I hope that to be of two minds about some things is not to be neutral.\" \u003ci\u003eRadical Ambivalence \u003c\/i\u003eexplores this double-mindedness and how it manifests itself in O'Connor's fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAngela Alaimo O'Donnell is a professor, writer, and poet at Fordham University and the Associate Director of Fordham's Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. Among her recent books are \u003ci\u003eFlannery O'Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith \u003c\/i\u003e(Liturgical, 2015) and \u003ci\u003eAndalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery O'Connor\u003c\/i\u003e (Paraclete, 2020).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50858618126610,"sku":"9780823287659","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e54d7e78-b60e-462f-a5b9-64c3c9afda2a.jpg?v=1737543937","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/radical-ambivalence-race-in-flannery-oconnor-9780823287659","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}