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The grotesqueness in Southern writing tends to only involve spiritual degradations while it veils historical interactions in the American South. The grotesquerie of O’Connor’s freaks has been interpreted as low level spirituality in the region. However, in “A Temple of the Holy Ghost,” O’Connor’s hermaphrodite disrupts conventional values. The cultural tensions between the New Woman and the Southern Lady display the regional dynamics of conventional gendering. Overall, O’Connor’s deviant women are charged with devalued white purity and degraded Southern spirituality. Within religious backgrounds, being a “temple” seems to reflect religious-centered society upon all Southerners. However, religious obedience is only imposed upon women. I argue that the grotesque bodies, as opposed to idealized religiousness, reveal suppressed aspects of Southern womanhood and gendered social domains. The idealized womanhood defines white women as dependent and even detached from female relations with wage-earning labors. In reality, they were still part of farm labor and exploited by the regional codes. In this paper I will examine the regional dynamics of the deified status of women in the South by focusing on “othered” bodies in “A Temple of the Holy Ghost,” to show that O’Connor challenged the conventional Southern expectations of women.

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 II. The Grotesque and Gender Dichotomy
 III. Regional Stereotype and Gendered Education in “A Temple of the Holy Ghost”
 IV. Conventional Gendering and the Freaks
 V. Conclusion
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저자

• Seongeun Jin [ Soongsil University ]

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  미국소설 [마크 트웨인 리뷰]

• 간기

  연3회

• pISSN

  1738-5784

• 수록기간

  1991~2020

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 843 DDC 813