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Contents Introduction vii Avis Hewitt Part 1 Reading O’Connor’s Violence And the Violent Bear It Away: O’Connor and the Menace of Apocalyptic Terrorism 3 Anthony Di Renzo The Violence of Technique and the Technique of Violence 25 Christina Bieber Lake “God May Strike You Thisaway”: Flannery O’Connor and Simone Weil on Affliction and Joy 41 Ralph C. Wood Eating the Bread of Life: Muted Violence in The Violent Bear It Away 59 J. Ramsey Michaels Toward a Consistent Ethic of Life in O’Connor’s “A Stroke of Good Fortune” 71 Linda Naranjo-Huebl Part 2 Connecting O’Connor’s Violence Gory Stories: O’Connor and American Horror 89 Jon Lance Bacon All the Dead Bodies: O’Connor and Noir 113 William Brevda How the Symbol Means: Deferral vs. Confrontation in The Sound and the Fury and “The Artificial Nigger” 125 John D. Sykes Jr. Violence, Nature, and Prophecy in Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy 143 Farrell O’Gorman Shiftlet’s Choice: O’Connor’s Fordist Love Story 169 Doug Davis Part 3 Theorizing O’Connor’s Violence O’Connor as Miscegenationist 189 Marshall Bruce Gentry “The Hermeneutics of Suspicion”: Problems in Interpreting the Life of Flannery O’Connor 201 W. A. Sessions Madness and Confinement in Michel Foucault and Flannery O’Connor 213 William Monroe On Belief, Conflict, and Universality: Flannery O’Connor, Walter Benn Michaels, and Slavoj Žižek 231 Thomas F. Haddox Everything That Rises Does Not Converge: The State of O’Connor Studies 241 Robert Donahoo Contributors 259 Index 265 ...