"Welty's White Girlhoods In/As History".
The article reexamines the representations of southern white girls in Eudora Welty's fiction from the ahistorical view of contemporary critics. Topics discussed include racial blindness as an oppressive aspect of whiteness, disruption of a girl's pre-pubescent first love, middle-class vision and inc...
| Publicado en: | Women's Studies Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 186 - 208 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2024
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| Sumario: | The article reexamines the representations of southern white girls in Eudora Welty's fiction from the ahistorical view of contemporary critics. Topics discussed include racial blindness as an oppressive aspect of whiteness, disruption of a girl's pre-pubescent first love, middle-class vision and incoherence of whiteness in "A Memory," white innocence, racial and class power in "June Recital" and white male supremacy over sexualized Black others and protection of white femininity in "Moon Lake." |
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