"So Far as I and My People Are Concerned the South Is Fascist Now and Always Has Been"Carson McCullers and the Racial Problem

  1. González Groba, Constante
Revista:
Atlantis: Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos

ISSN: 0210-6124

Ano de publicación: 2015

Volume: 37

Número: 2

Páxinas: 63-80

Tipo: Artigo

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Resumo

Carson McCullers tenía una aguda conciencia de la culpa de los sureños blancos en relación con la opresión de los afroamericanos, y su ficción presenta una compleja red de diferentes configuraciones del problema racial en el sur estadounidense. En The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter nos legó el retrato de un afroamericano, un Martin Luther King avant la lettre que lucha por los derechos civiles de los negros, aunque paradójicamente su negritud obsesiva lo aproxima a la blancura que le oprime. En The Member of the Wedding la autora conecta la opresión racial con la opresión de género en el contexto del Sur reaccionario en la década de 1940, y relaciona el fracaso del deseo de fluidez sexual con el fracaso de la aspiración al hibridismo racial. En Clock without Hands vemos el influjo del existencialismo en las actitudes de personajes blancos en relación con las violentas relaciones raciales a principios del movimiento por los derechos civiles, y cómo McCullers explora las consecuencias trágicas de concepciones raciales extremas.

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