Position In Southern Flannery O'Connor Works

In the20th century, a large number of excellent writers emerged with the movement of American "Southern Renaissance",such as William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, Carson McCullers, Eudora Welty.As a member in such campaign,Flannery O’Connor also showed her distinctive personality in literary Relying on the background of southern society, her novels focused on the southern social customs and lifestyle." The "southern consciousness","southern religious features" and the "southern negro problem"in her works are the most important three aspects to show the southern position.As a southerner,O’Connor bear deep emotion about her hometown.Facing the present situation that the south is full of material desires and lack of faith under the shock of modern civilization,she called loudly through extreme processing method,trying to rebuild a bridge of salvation between the secular and the ultimate shore for modern people.O’Connor paid close attention to the special social problem in the South,namely the negro problem,and put forward her own thoughts on the standpoint of a southern writer and catholic.Based on O’Connor’s southern position,the paper is divided into three parts.The first part discusses the forming background of the southern consciousness in the southern position as well as the rurality-based consciousness in her works.The second part starts from such three points,the "displacement" between the writer’s religious consciousness and the historic views in the South, the special image of "heresy" in the south and the criticism to the southern secularism, discussing the performance between the south and O’Connor’s religious ideas. The third part discusses the negro problem of O’Connor’s southern position and her racial standpoint.Religion, bizarre and the south has been three important issues in the research of O’Connor.The south of the three is not only the performance object of the former two, but also provide soils for them.While on the basis of southern property,the researching about O’Connor’s southern position in her works adds the dimension of consciousness,and that provides a universal key to open and go into O’Connor’s fiction world.