Carson McCullers in the Twenty-First Century
The contributors to this volume use diverse critical techniques to identify how Carson McCullers’ writing engages with and critiques modern social structures and how her work resonates with a twenty-first century audience. The collection includes chapters
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Carson McCullers in the Twenty-First Century Edited by
ALISON GRAHAM-BERTOLINI AND CASEY KAYSER
American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century Series Editor Linda Wagner-Martin Unit 402 Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century publishes works by contemporary critics that help shape critical opinion regarding literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the United States.
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Alison Graham-Bertolini • Casey Kayser Editors
Carson McCullers in the Twenty-First Century
Editors Alison Graham-Bertolini Dept. 2320, Dept of English North Dakota State University Fargo, North Dakota, USA
Casey Kayser University of Arkansas Fayetteville Arkansas, USA
American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century ISBN 978-3-319-40291-8 ISBN 978-3-319-40292-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40292-5
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PREFACE
By 1947, when Quick, a weekly news magazine, selected Carson McCullers as “one of the best postwar writers in America” (qtd. in Carr 294), she had already found success with The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) and Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941), published several short stories and novellas including The Ballad of the Sad Café (1943), and had received wide critical acclaim for The Member of the Wedding (1946), a novel that she would soon adapt into a successful Broadway production. Around the same time, Gore Vidal declared McCullers “the best American woman novelist” (qtd. in Rodwan).
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