The political thought of Eudora Welty.
| Publisher | Mississippi State University |
| Publication | The Mississippi Quarterly |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0026-637X |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | v50 |
| Issue | n4 |
| Published | 1997-09-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Peggy Whitman Prenshaw |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Eudora Welty |
Throughout the nearly sixty years of Eudora Welty's literary career it has been commonplace for reviewers and critics to think and write of her fiction as apolitical or non-political. Diana Trilling's reviews of The Wide Net (1943) and Delta Wedding (1946) spoke of a fictional vision that was like a ballet--stylized, elegant, too often precious and lacking in a realistic engagement with the South as it existed in a social, political manifestation. "Cloud Cuckoo Land" was the description the reviewer for Time magazine gave Welty's portrait of a 1923 Mississippi Delta, the nod to...
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