Description: A groundbreaking work on race and class in the remarkable writer's fiction and photography
Brief description: Harriet Pollack, College of Charleston, is author of Eudora Welty's Fiction and Photography: The Body of the Other Woman; editor of New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race; Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race; and Having Our Way: Women Rewriting Tradition in Twentieth-Century America; and coeditor (with Jacob Agner) of Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden In Plain Sight, (with Christopher Metress) of Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination, and (with Suzanne Marrs) of Eudora Welty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade? 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 codirected four international Welty conferences including the 2009 Centennial, and in 2008 received the Phoenix Award for outstanding contributions to Welty scholarship.
Review Quotes: 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"