Reflections in a Critical Eye

Jan Whitt is associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of other books, including Settling the Borderland: Other Voices in Literary Journalism (2008) and Allegory and the Modern Southern Novel (1994).

• Part 1 PrefaceChapter 2 The Exiled Heir: An Introduction to Carson McCullers and Her WorkChapter 3 Carson McCullers and the Tradition of Southern Women's Nonfiction ProseChapter 4 The Daughters as Outlaw in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and The Member of the WeddingChapter 5 You Might as Well Listen to the Chain Gang: The Ballad of the Sad CaféChapter 6 A "Calculable Woman" and a "Jittery Ninny": Performing Femininity in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Ballad of the Sad CaféChapter 7 Miss Amelia's Pharmacy: Carson McCullers and the Influence of AlcoholChapter 8 "Copying the Wrong Pieces": Replication and the Mathematics of Togetherness in The Member of the WeddingChapter 9 Living and Writing in the Margins: Lesbian Desire and the Novels of Carson McCullersChapter 10 Politics in the Kitchen: Carson McCullers, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Surrealist HistoryChapter 11 "Simple Stories and the Inward Mind": Conclusions and New BeginningsPart 12 IndexPart 13 About the Contributors

The academic authors explore a variety of approaches to McCullers' writings....This is a useful survey.