After the American Civil War, the majority of Southern literary writers focused their pieces on the South’s past. It evoked a sense of nostalgia that was hard to move past. In the 1920s, a movement known as the Southern Renaissance came into action. The objective was not to forget, but to come to terms with… Continue reading Flannery O’Connor and The Southern Renaissance
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Flannery O’Connor Journal
Flannery O’Connor was a novelist and writer of short stories who frequently drew from her own life and experiences to produce her creative work. Born in Georgia in 1925 as the daughter of two Catholic parents, both O’Connor’s Southern background and her spirituality frequently worked their way into her writing, often in tandem with her… Continue reading Flannery O’Connor Journal