American Literature / Unit 16 AML 1511 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Grotesque
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The idea
O'Connor was born in Savannah, raised Catholic, trained at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and returned to the family farm in Milledgeville after a lupus diagnosis in nineteen fifty-one. Her fiction is known for Southern gothic settings, dark humour and violence arising out of superstition, religion or prejudice.
In practice
A farm, a disease, and violent comedy.
Where people slip
She died of lupus at thirty-nine.
Your place on the trail
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