{"id":1784,"date":"2017-10-17T10:46:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T09:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2023-11-12T12:15:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T12:15:26","slug":"southern-writers-at-nc-1-flannery-oconnors-visual-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"Southern Writers at NC 1: Flannery O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s Visual Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1798\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/self-portrait1953.jpg?resize=243%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/self-portrait1953.jpg?resize=243%2C300&amp;ssl=1 243w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/self-portrait1953.jpg?w=264&amp;ssl=1 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1799\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/131203-flannery-oconner.jpg?resize=226%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/131203-flannery-oconner.jpg?resize=226%2C300&amp;ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/131203-flannery-oconner.jpg?w=374&amp;ssl=1 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The self-portrait and the state official version..<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1791\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Flannery-stamp.png?resize=420%2C237&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Flannery-stamp.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Flannery-stamp.png?w=636&amp;ssl=1 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nottinghamcontemporary.org\/event\/study-sessions-women-writers-us-south\">http:\/\/www.nottinghamcontemporary.org\/event\/study-sessions-women-writers-us-south<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first session in Nottingham Contemporary&#8217;s season of Southern Writers organised by <a href=\"https:\/\/nottinghamcityofliterature.com\/our-community\/graham-caveney\">Graham Caveney<\/a> was excellent and not only was it a pleasure listening to Richard H. King speak about Southern Writing but there was the added pleasure of meeting the crime novelist John Harvey and his daughter too (John was a American Studies student on M.A. back in the day as they say).<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A5160-RFDKY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>I did not know Flannery O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s work although I had purchased her Complete Short Stories many years ago..it had languished on my very full and very unread shelves.<\/p>\n<p>The session was a revelation and I have since been working my way through her &#8216;Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose&#8217; collection which is wonderful. I always knew that one of my favourite writers Raymond Carver had referenced her as a major influence but it only now I seeing why. Her observations on &#8216;Creative Writing&#8217; courses and their effectiveness made me laugh out loud (see her lecture &#8216;The Nature and Aim of Fiction&#8217;) &#8230;.she speaks of what she knows having been an early Iowa Writers Workshop student where she met John Crowe Ransom and Robert Penn Warren.<\/p>\n<p>Here her major works in contemporary covers which shows how she was an illustrator&#8217;s dream commission&#8230; which leads on to yet another revelation..she was herself a budding cartoonist whilst at College!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1787\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wise1.jpg?resize=209%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wise1.jpg?resize=209%2C300&amp;ssl=1 209w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wise1.jpg?w=349&amp;ssl=1 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1789\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/136086.jpg?resize=178%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/136086.jpg?resize=178%2C300&amp;ssl=1 178w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/136086.jpg?w=282&amp;ssl=1 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1800\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wise.jpg?resize=188%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wise.jpg?resize=188%2C300&amp;ssl=1 188w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wise.jpg?w=529&amp;ssl=1 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Signature below combines her initials into the form of a bird on her lino-cuts (her chosen medium).<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1785\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/8800-v1-300x.jpg?resize=300%2C230&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1786\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/51EPnEphAIL.jpg?resize=300%2C253&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/51EPnEphAIL.jpg?resize=300%2C253&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/51EPnEphAIL.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/06\/flannery-oconnor-cartoonist\/<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1792\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/26924095-2.jpg?resize=300%2C235&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/26924095-2.jpg?resize=300%2C235&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/26924095-2.jpg?w=490&amp;ssl=1 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1793\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/26924095-3.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/26924095-3.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/26924095-3.jpg?w=490&amp;ssl=1 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1794\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/26924095-4.jpg?resize=293%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/26924095-4.jpg?resize=293%2C300&amp;ssl=1 293w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/26924095-4.jpg?w=490&amp;ssl=1 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1795\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/26924095-5.jpg?resize=289%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/26924095-5.jpg?resize=289%2C300&amp;ssl=1 289w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/26924095-5.jpg?w=490&amp;ssl=1 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/infox.gcsu.edu\/content\/georgia-college-publishes-collected-cartoons-flannery-o%E2%80%99connor\">http:\/\/infox.gcsu.edu\/content\/georgia-college-publishes-collected-cartoons-flannery-o%E2%80%99connor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/comics\/article\/51455-how-flannery-o-connor-s-early-cartoons-influenced-her-later-writing.html\">https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/comics\/article\/51455-how-flannery-o-connor-s-early-cartoons-influenced-her-later-writing.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here some examples and what interesting is there is some stylistic similarity with another Catholic writer\/artist Eric Gill possibly somebody she familiar with through Catholic journals. There also a sense of W Heath Robinson too&#8230;.who possibly she saw as a child..<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1796\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/gill.jpg?resize=153%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/gill.jpg?resize=153%2C300&amp;ssl=1 153w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/gill.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1797\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/heathengenhoca.jpg?resize=245%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/heathengenhoca.jpg?resize=245%2C300&amp;ssl=1 245w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/heathengenhoca.jpg?w=390&amp;ssl=1 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My favourite photo is this one of her on the veranda at her family farm in Andalusia with one of her beloved chickens ( a interesting connection with fellow Southern writer Alice Walker)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1788\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/oconnor_cover.jpg?resize=538%2C359&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/oconnor_cover.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/oconnor_cover.jpg?w=550&amp;ssl=1 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There an interesting blog published by the Museum that the farm has now become:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andalusiafarm.blogspot.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/andalusiafarm.blogspot.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emory.edu\/EMORY_MAGAZINE\/issues\/2015\/winter\/features\/oconnor.html\">http:\/\/www.emory.edu\/EMORY_MAGAZINE\/issues\/2015\/winter\/features\/oconnor.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Wikipedia! <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flannery_O%27Connor\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flannery_O%27Connor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>When she was six, living in a house still standing (now preserved as the <a title=\"Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flannery_O%27Connor_Childhood_Home\">Flannery O&#8217;Connor Childhood Home<\/a>), she experienced her first brush with celebrity status. The\u00a0 <a title=\"Path\u00c3\u00a9 News\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Path%C3%A9_News\">Pathe News <\/a>\u00a0people filmed &#8220;Little Mary O&#8217;Connor&#8221; with her trained chicken<sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flannery_O%27Connor#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup>\u00c2 and showed the film around the country. She said: &#8220;When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been an anticlimax.&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-FOOTNOTEO.27ConnorMagee198738_4-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flannery_O%27Connor#cite_note-FOOTNOTEO.27ConnorMagee198738-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n<p>What I have responded most strongly to in her writing so far is the confluence of regional identity..humour and this particularly visuality which I shown above.<\/p>\n<p>John Huston&#8217;s film of Wise Blood seems embedded with Flannery&#8217;s visuality which may be why it seems so sharply drawn from the &#8216;directions&#8217; in the text. We &#8216;see&#8217; her world very sharply through her pen in an almost Dickensian sense&#8230;I have not read any criticism linking the two but I sure she would have been familiar with Dickens especially &#8216;American Notes&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Here the trailer of the 1979 film&#8230;.welcome to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milledgeville,_Georgia\">Milledgeville<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GtvjLdwEBMM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Finally a modern comic version of &#8216;A Good Man&#8217; that brings things full circle &#8211; image copyright <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/uk\/shop\/PhillipRexHuddleston?ref=l2-shop-info-name\">Philip Rex Huddlestone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1808\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/comic.jpg?resize=640%2C853&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/comic.jpg?w=1125&amp;ssl=1 1125w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/comic.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/comic.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/comic.jpg?resize=676%2C901&amp;ssl=1 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I will post my reaction to the second session &#8216;Alice Walker&#8217; by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntu.ac.uk\/staff-profiles\/arts-humanities\/sharon-monteith\">Sharon Monteith<\/a> now at Nottingham Trent University in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The self-portrait and the state official version.. http:\/\/www.nottinghamcontemporary.org\/event\/study-sessions-women-writers-us-south The first session in Nottingham Contemporary&#8217;s season of Southern Writers organised by Graham Caveney was excellent and not only was it a pleasure listening to Richard H. 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