Description: Faced with Welty's preference for the oblique in literary performances, some have assumed that Welty was not concerned with issues of race. This collection counters those assumptions as it examines Welty's handling of race, the color line, and Jim Crow segregation and sheds new light on her views.
Brief description: HARRIET POLLACK is a professor of English at Bucknell University. She is an editor and coeditor of four collections: Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race (Georgia), Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination, Eudora Welty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade?, and Having Our Way: Women Rewriting Tradition in Twentieth-Century America.
Review Quotes:
The jury is no longer out. After decades of scholarly debate about where Eudora Welty stands on race, the twelve contributors to this superb collection have finally settled the matter. By focusing on Welty's oblique style and technical intricacy, they convincingly illuminate how race, the color line, and white blindness function in her photography and her fiction.
--Suzanne W. Jones "author of Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties"