Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight by Agner, Jacob
Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight by Agner, Jacob

Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight

Contributions by Jacob Agner, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Katie Berry Frye, Michael Kreyling, Andrew B. Leiter, Rebecca Mark,...
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Author: Jacob Agner
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Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight by Agner, Jacob

Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight

$100.73
Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight by Agner, Jacob

Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight

$100.73
Author: Jacob Agner
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Contributions by Jacob Agner, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Katie Berry Frye, Michael Kreyling, Andrew B. Leiter, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Tom Nolan, Michael Pickard, Harriet Pollack, and Victoria Richard

Eudora Welty's ingenious play with readers' expectations made her a cunning writer, a paramount modernist, a short story artist of the first rank, and a remarkable literary innovator. In her signature puzzle-texts, she habitually engages with familiar genres and then delights readers with her transformations and nonfulfillment of conventions. Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight reveals how often that play is with mystery, crime, and detective fiction genres, popular fiction forms often condescended to in literary studies, but unabashedly beloved by Welty throughout her lifetime.

Put another way, Welty often creates her stories' secrets by both evoking and displacing crime fiction conventions. Instead of restoring order with a culminating reveal, her story-puzzles characteristically allow mystery to linger and thicken. The mystery pursued becomes mystery elsewhere. The essays in this collection shift attention from narratives, characters, and plots as they have previously been understood by unearthing enigmas hidden within those constructions.

Some of these new readings continue Welty's investigation of hegemonic whiteness and southern narratives of race--outlining these in chalk as outright crime stories. Other essays show how Welty anticipated the regendering of the form now so characteristic of contemporary women mystery writers. Her tender and widely ranging personal correspondence with the hard-boiled American crime writer Ross Macdonald is also discussed. Together these essays make the case that across her career, Eudora Welty was arguably one of the genre's greatest double agents, and, to apply the titles of Macdonald's novels to her inventiveness with the form, she is its "underground woman," its unexpected "sleeping beauty."

Author: Jacob Agner
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 12/28/2022
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9781496842718


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/19/2022
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