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TABLE OF CONTENTS Special Feature: Flannery O’Connor and the Religious Dimension in Latino/a Fiction Bridget Kevane, Guest Editor 1 Bridget Kevane Introduction 5 Bridget Kevane and Helena Maria Viramontes Viramontes on O’Connor 12 Avis Hewitt “Someone to Shoot Her Every Minute of Her Life”: Maternity and Violent Death in Helena Maria Viramontes and Flannery O’Connor 27 Farrell O’Gorman and Richard Rodriguez A Twenty-First Century Writer: Richard Rodriguez on Flannery O’Connor 32 Farrell O'Gorman White, Black, and Brown: Reading O’Connor After Richard Rodriguez 50 Hector Calderon El Sur, Once Again: A Response 54 Brian Sutton An Unconscious Obsession: The Influence of Flannery O’Connor’s Novels on Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” 69 Jo McDougall In the Land of Onion Sets: A Poet Pays Tribute to the Influence of Flannery O’Connor 88 Laura L. Behling The Necessity of Disability in “Good Country People” and “The Lame Shall Enter First” 99 Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. Taking It to the Streets: Flannery O’Connor, Prophecy, and the Civil Rights Movement 110 Scott Daniel Gender-Bending Innuendo and Mystical Theology in O’Connor’s Wise Blood iii I'ABLE OF CONTENTS 122 Rebecca S. Karnes “On Earth as in Heaven”: The Potential, Peril, and Paradox of Community in Flannery O’Connor’s “The Live You Save May Be Your Own” 131 Frances Florencourt Two Memoires of the Greene Street House 134 Margaret Earley Whitt An O’Connor Redemption in Tommy Lee Jones’s The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada 137 W. A. Sessions Review of Susan Srigley’s Flannery O’Connor’s Sacramental Art 143 Ralph C. Wood Review of Christina Bieber Lake’s The Incarnational Art of Flannery O’Connor 147 Carla L. Verderame Review of The Critical Response to Flannery O’Connor 150 Virginia Wray Review of Melissa Simpson’s Flannery O’Connor: A Biography 152 Marshall Bruce Gentry Review of Writers of the American South: Tljeir Literary Landscapes, by Hugh Howard with photographs by Roger Straus III, and American Writers at Home, by J. D. McClatchy with photographs by Erica Leonard 154 Jane Atteridge Rose Review of Robert Jackson’s Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, and Innovation 157 Robert Donahoo Review of David Castronovo’s Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit: Books from the 1950s That Made American Culture 160 Doreen Fowler Review of John F. Desmond’s Walker Percy’s Search for Community 162 Notes on Contributors 167 Josephine Keese King Tourism at Andalusia: A Cartoon IV v>