| Risen Sons: Flannery O''Connor''s Vision of History Subjects: O’Connor Flannery -- Knowledge -- History; Women in literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Fiction -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; History in literature; Though stressing that Flannery O'Connor was first and foremost a writer of fiction, John Desmond maintains in Risen Sons that her orthodox Catholic theology stands at the center of her vision, providing the metaphysical base from which the fiction evolved. Given this religious context, Desmond contends that O'Connor's stated view of fiction-writing as an "incarnational act" suggests a direct connection between the practice of fiction-writing and the Incarnation of Christ--the pivotal historic event which her fiction seeks to imitate and through which her vision is revealed. JOHN F. DESMOND is Mary A. Denny Professor of English at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. He is the author of Risen Sons (Georgia) and At the Crossroads . |