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Flannery O’Connor’s Racial Grotesqueness and Metaphorical Black Codes in “The Artificial Nigger” and “Judgment Day

Authors
진성은
Issue Date
Sep-2018
Publisher
한국영미문학교육학회
Keywords
Flannery O’Connor; “The Artificial Nigger; ” “Judgment Day; ” racism; racial grotesqueness; black codes
Citation
영미문학교육, v.22, no.2, pp.133 - 146
Journal Title
영미문학교육
Volume
22
Number
2
Start Page
133
End Page
146
URI
http://scholarworks.bwise.kr/ssu/handle/2018.sw.ssu/31260
ISSN
1229-2249
Abstract
This paper examines the American geographical descriptions of racism and a long history of racial separations in Flannery O’Connor’s “The Artificial Nigger” (1955) and “Judgment Day” (1965). O’Connor’s writing displays ambiguity between restoring the white’s lost comfort zone and acknowledging the rebellious changes in modern society. Whites lost status because in the American South African-American people and foreigners began to substitute for whites’ in professional roles in the mid-twentieth century. O’Connor’s white characters psychologically reside in the glorious world of the past. The American South has a special background due to the defeatism since the Civil War. In the paper, I argue that O’Connor’s stories show the social changes regardless of her complex views of mystery and religion. In addition, she to some degree rebels against the reader’s expectation of equilibrium by shaking the conventional Southern structure and unveiling a reality of the upcoming Civil Rights movement regarding racial equality.
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