"Making a Scene": some thoughts on female sexuality and marriage in Eudora Welty's 'Delta Wedding' and 'The Optimist's Daughter.'
| Publisher | Mississippi State University |
| Publication | The Mississippi Quarterly |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0026-637X |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | v48 |
| Issue | n2 |
| Published | 1995-03-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Danielle Fuller |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Eudora Welty |
It is around sexuality that issues about power are raised in some of their most difficult forms. For it is frequently in their sexuality that women find their feelings and actions seem to belie their aspirations for independence.(1)
The human face and the human body are eloquent in themselves . . . . Every feeling waits upon its gesture. Then when it does come, how unpredictable it turns out to be, after all.(2)
Eudora Welty's preface to the selection of photographs which appeared as One Time, One Place emphasises the way in which "a snapshot is a moment's glimpse" into...
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