New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race (Critical Perspectives on Eudora Welty)
Brand: University Press of Mississippi
Categories: Books, Literature & Fiction, History & Criticism



Dimensions: 6 x 0.62 x 9 inches
ISBN-13: 978-1496826152
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1496826159
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Print length: 246 pages
Publication date: November 29, 2019
subtitle: Paperback – Illustrated, November 29, 2019
author: Harriet Pollack
review: Editorial Reviews Review A must-read for Welty scholars and also valuable for those interested in southern literature and American literature in general. ― CHOICE New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race is, indeed, part of a long critical conversation, and contains between its covers an internal conversation among Welty scholars of several of the generations who have instigated the changes. Some are senior and experienced, others inject new voices and perspectives. The single voice that remains constant, or constantly elusive; is Welty's. -- Michael Kreyling, Vanderbilt University ― Eudora Welt)' Review Volume 12: 2020 New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race provides valuable insights into the issues of class and race in Welty’s fiction and photography. . . . With the inclusion of exciting intertextual readings, this collection contributes not only to Welty scholarship but also, more broadly, to southern literary studies and studies in American fiction and photography. -- Hyoung Min Lee ― Flannery O’Connor Review The essays in New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race , edited by Harriet Pollack, clear fresh and surprising paths into the author’s complexly nuanced attentiveness to issues of race, class, and gender. This is a collection deeply steeped in the physical embodiments and spatial dimensions of Welty’s stories and their richly associative powers; and like the southern landscape, both natural and socially constructed, these essays are as textured and generative as the author’s work itself: high praise indeed! -- Minrose Gwin, author of Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Civil Rights Movement and The Accidentals: A Novel New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race promises to be a major asset for not only Welty scholars, but readers, teachers, and researchers in southern literature, ethnic studies, gender studies, southern history, African American studies, whiteness studies, and musicology. One could not ask for a better editor than Harriet Pollack, whose recent work on Welty has vaulted her into the forefront of Welty studies. She knows this great writer's oeuvre better than anyone and is well connected with the other prominent Welty scholars―and most of them are in this collection. -- John Wharton Lowe, Barbara Methvin Distinguished Professor of Southern, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies at University of Georgia Review New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race promises to be a major asset for not only Welty scholars, but readers, teachers, and researchers in southern literature, ethnic studies, gender studies, southern history, African American studies, whiteness studies, and musicology. One could not ask for a better editor than Harriet Pollack, whose recent work on Welty has vaulted her into the forefront of Welty studies. She knows this great writer's oeuvre better than anyone and is well connected with the other prominent Welty scholars―and most of them are in this collection. -- John Wharton Lowe, Barbara Methvin Distinguished Professor of Southern, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies at University of Georgia Book Description New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race promises to be a major asset for not only Welty scholars, but readers, teachers, and researchers in southern literature, ethnic studies, gender studies, southern history, African American studies, whiteness studies, and musicology. One could not ask for a better editor than Harriet Pollack, whose recent work on Welty has vaulted her into the forefront of Welty studies. She knows this great writer's oeuvre better than anyone and is well connected with the other prominent Welty scholars?and most of them are in this collection. -- John Wharton Lowe, Barbara Methvin Distinguished Professor of Southern, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies at University of Georgia About the Author Harriet Pollack , College of Charleston, is author of Eudora Welty’s Fiction and Photography: The Body of the Other Woman and editor of New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race ; Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race ; Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination (with Christopher Metress); Eudora Welty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade? (with Suzanne Marrs); and Having Our Way: Women Rewriting Tradition in Twentieth-Century America . She now serves as editor of University Press of Mississippi’s book series Critical Perspectives on Eudora Welty. She has twice served as president of the Eudora Welty Society , has directed three international Welty conferences including the 2009 Centennial, and in 2008 received the Phoenix Award for outstanding contributions to Welty scholarship. Read more