Ebook of the Week - Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Terrorism: Essays on Violence and Grace

Avis Hewitt and Robert Donahoo, eds. Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Terrorism: Essays on Violence and Grace. Knoxville: University of Tenessee Press, 2010. 

Hewitt and Donahoo have compiled a number of essays that examine violence in the works of Flannery O’Connor. They have organized them into three sections. The first segment consists of essays related to the violence found in O’Connor’s works. The second segment contains essays connecting the portrayal of violence in O’Connor’s works to that of other writers and literary genres. Finally, the third segment of essays examine O’Connor’s works in light of the current culture and theories of violence.

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