Southern Cross | Literary Precedents
In Southern Cross, Cornwell moves into the territory of the Southern Gothic and of the satiric. Her literary precedents are Flannery O'Connor, as in the short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," and John Kennedy O'Toole, as in the novel A Confederacy of Dunces. These are stories which depict Southern regional types with a satiric edge and which capture the differences between their world view and mainstream views. O'Connor captures the religious obsessions and metaphysical speculations that produce a cold-blooded existential killer, a rural misfit striking out at the...
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