Invisible Empire in Flannery O’Connor’s “The Displaced Person”: Southern Dynamics of Race, Miscegenation and Anti-Catholicism
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Flannery O’Connor’s stories have garnered critical attention for herreligious views. Thus, the interpretation of violence in her fiction hasbeen mainly associated with salvation in her characters. Nonetheless,O’Connor was aware of the historical facts surrounding white supremacistactivities in the American South. In its revenge narrative,O’Connor’s story “The Displaced Person” (1955) unveils subtle layers ofpolitics from the Ku Klux Klan as well as her white characters’ views ofrace and immigrants. O’Connor used a voice of reserve due to her minorityposition as woman and Catholic. Although she was a white female,she lived within repressive Southern religiosity. Racism prevailedbeneath Southern chauvinism and patriotism. The conflicts in the Southdisplay the violent aspects of the “Invisible White Supreme Empire.”After the World Wars, devalued whiteness elicited atrocities againstsocially upward mobile African Americans, foreigners and Catholics. This article explores the convoluted issues of racial hierarchy, miscegenation,and xenophobic reactions in the South.
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Flannery O’Connor’s stories have garnered critical attention for herreligious views. Thus, the interpretation of violence in her fiction hasbeen mainly associated with salvation in her characters. Nonetheless,O’Connor was aware of the historical facts surrounding white supremacistactivities in the American South. In its revenge narrative,O’Connor’s story “The Displaced Person” (1955) unveils subtle layers ofpolitics from the Ku Klux Klan as well as her white characters’ views ofrace and immigrants. O’Connor used a voice of reserve due to her minorityposition as woman and Catholic. Although she was a white female,she lived within repressive Southern religiosity. Racism prevailedbeneath Southern chauvinism and patriotism. The conflicts in the Southdisplay the violent aspects of the “Invisible White Supreme Empire.”After the World Wars, devalued whiteness elicited atrocities againstsocially upward mobile African Americans, foreigners and Catholics. This article explores the convoluted issues of racial hierarchy, miscegenation,and xenophobic reactions in the South.
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