Reflections in a Critical Eye is intended to appeal both to scholars of Carson McCullers and to those unaffiliated with colleges and universities who read and celebrate her life and work. Following an introduction for newcomers to Southern literature and culture and to McCuller’s life and work, the collection presents essays about diverse topics including: McCuller’s in the tradition of Southern women’s nonfiction prose, daughters as outlaw figures in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Memberof the Wedding, gender and interplay among the roles characters assume in The Ballad of the Sad Café, same-sex relationships in McCuller’s novels and short stories, and the phenomenon of the masquerade in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Ballad of the Sad Café.
Jan Whitt is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Having begun her career as a reporter and editor in Texas, Whitt recently completed a manuscript entitled Women in American Journalism: A New History. She also published Allegory and the Modern Southern Novel.
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