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- The Poetics of Insecurity
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
- The Poetics of Insecurity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 The Virtue of Uncertainty
- Chapter 3 Harriet Jacobs’s Imagined Community of Insecurity
- Chapter 4 Willa Cather and the Security of Radical Contingency
- Chapter 5 Cold War Liberalism and Flannery O’Connor’s “The Displaced Person”
- Chapter 6 In the Future, Toward Death
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series page
Chapter 5 - Cold War Liberalism and Flannery O’Connor’s “The Displaced Person”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 December 2017
- The Poetics of Insecurity
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
- The Poetics of Insecurity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 The Virtue of Uncertainty
- Chapter 3 Harriet Jacobs’s Imagined Community of Insecurity
- Chapter 4 Willa Cather and the Security of Radical Contingency
- Chapter 5 Cold War Liberalism and Flannery O’Connor’s “The Displaced Person”
- Chapter 6 In the Future, Toward Death
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series page
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- The Poetics of InsecurityAmerican Fiction and the Uses of Threat, pp. 128 - 155Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017