Placing violence, embodying grace: Flannery O'Connor's "Displaced Person."

From: Studies in Short Fiction | Date: January 1, 1997| Author: Bolton, Betsy | Copyright information

Flannery O'Connor's "Displaced Person" is structured around images of the Holocaust. The short story attempts to make sense of such images and visions. The technology of her storytelling offers an alternative method without violent images. The relationship between vision and violence is clarified in the story.

Several years ago, Slavoj Zizek, considering the notion that "we live in a post-ideological society," proposed instead a redefinition of ideology. The most elementary defin...

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