Flannery O’Connor is having a birthday celebration on March 25, hosted by the Andalusia Institute, a public arts and humanities institute at Georgia College dedicated to Flannery O’Connor and her interests. For the days’ activities, check it out online. I’m speaking on a panel that afternoon on Flannery O’Connor and Motherhood, and so was pleased to get a notification today that my article, “Maternal Rage: Double Dipping in Language and Experience,” which features O’Connor’s fiction, has been scheduled for publication in the June 2020 issue (50.4) of Women’s Studies. k
Double-dipping into Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction
By Claire Kahane
Claire Kahane spent part of the 1950s and 60s on the road, propelled by a lust for adventure, and the will to challenge the expectations for women of her family and culture. Years later, as a Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, and informed by her study of psychoanalysis, she wrote and edited books and essays which explored gender conflict in modern fiction, the dark appeal of Gothic literature, Holocaust trauma, and the perverse novels of Ian McEwan. Her memoir, Nine Lives, testifies to her dynamic re-invention of self over nine decades. She lives in Berkeley and continues to write both memoir pieces and literary criticism.
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