Losing Battles | Reconstructing American Law: The Politics of Narrative and Eudora Welty's Empathic Vision
In the following essay, Kornfeld discusses the reconstruction of American law within the stories of Welty's Losing Battles.
In the 1960s, in my home town of Jackson, the civil rights leader Medgar Evers was murdered one night in darkness, and I wrote a story that same night about the murderer (his identity then unknown) called 'Where Is the Voice Coming From?' But all that absorbed me, though it started as outrage, was the necessity I felt for entering into the mind and inside the skin of a character who could hardly have been more alien or repugnant to me. Trying for my utmost, I wrote it in the first person. I was wholly vaunting the prerogative of the short-story writer. It is always...
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