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Catholic Minds of the South: A New Concert

Catholic Minds of the South: A New Concert Catholic Minds of the South: A New Concert by Bryan Giemza Flannery O'Connor's Sacramental Art. By Susan Srigley. Notre Dame, IN: U of Notre Dame P, 2004. xii + 195 pages. $42.00 cloth, $20.00 paper. Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction. By Farrell O'Gorman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2004. ix + 259 pages. $44.95 cloth. It's no secret that the "three R's" defining the South's sense of difference -- race, rurality, and religion -- have largely given way to modernity, at least on the surface. Race relations have improved to the extent that the region now benefits from net in-migration of blacks, and the majority of southerners live in urban centers in what has become the most industrialized region of the country. A recent A.P. headline served up a kind of clichéd eulogy in suggesting that the South's identity is "gone like the wind." The article reports that Martha Stewart has designs to build a simulacrum of a New England neighborhood in Cary, North Carolina -- reason enough, perhaps, to wear black -- but it doesn't note that Faulkner archly observed the same sort of thing happening many decades ago, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

Catholic Minds of the South: A New Concert

Giemza, Bryan Albin.
The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 39 (1) – Feb 8, 2006
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Catholic Minds of the South: A New Concert by Bryan Giemza Flannery O'Connor's Sacramental Art. By Susan Srigley. Notre Dame, IN: U of Notre Dame P, 2004. xii + 195 pages. $42.00 cloth, $20.00 paper. Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction. By Farrell O'Gorman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2004. ix + 259 pages. $44.95 cloth. It's no secret that the "three R's" defining the South's sense of difference -- race, rurality, and religion -- have largely given way to modernity, at least on the surface. Race relations have improved to the extent that the region now benefits from net in-migration of blacks, and the majority of southerners live in urban centers in what has become the most industrialized region of the country. A recent A.P. headline served up a kind of clichéd eulogy in suggesting that the South's identity is "gone like the wind." The article reports that Martha Stewart has designs to build a simulacrum of a New England neighborhood in Cary, North Carolina -- reason enough, perhaps, to wear black -- but it doesn't note that Faulkner archly observed the same sort of thing happening many decades ago,

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