“Something Awful”fronteras difusas y conexiones místicas entre lo animal, lo humano y lo divino en dos relatos de Flannery O’Connor

  1. Correoso Ródenas, José Manuel 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
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    Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

    Ciudad Real, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05r78ng12

Revue:
Pangeas: Revista Interdisciplinar de Ecocrítica

ISSN: 2695-5040

Année de publication: 2019

Número: 1

Pages: 63-73

Type: Article

DOI: 10.14198/PANGEAS2019.1.06 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openRUA editor

D'autres publications dans: Pangeas: Revista Interdisciplinar de Ecocrítica

Résumé

The goal of this paper is to bring the attention over two stories included by Flannery O’Connor in her MFA Thesis at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (1947): “Wildcat” and “The Turkey.” Both of them depict animals with a key relevance within the development and denouement of the stories. Both of them, too, depict men (or children/teenagers) whose life is like the one of those animals in one way or another. However, both the wildcat and the wild turkey are not only featuring the natural world of the South, according to Miss O’Connor’s descriptions. They are used as a means of linkage between the world of men and the world of the supernatural. Through these beasts, humans can transcend their own reality and reach the intangible and the divine; nevertheless, they will find how “the other side” is far more terrifying than what they were able to conceive. The animals of these stories are also substantial holders of O’Connor’s “mystery and manners”: they are (and represent) a mystery and, at the same time, they seek for human’s manners in order to move them to their own territory. Within these stories the borders between the animal, the human, and the divine are erased, creating a three-sided hybridity from which the protagonists are unable to scape. Death, as gateway, will be their only salvation.

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