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" It was not possible to tell if the artificial Negro were meant to be young or old ; he looked too miserable to be either. He was meant to look happy because his mouth was stretched up at the corners but the chipped eye and the angle he was cocked at gave... "
Literature, Arts, and Religion - Pągina 37
editat per - 1981 - 185 pągines
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Georgia Voices: Fiction

Hugh Ruppersburg - 1992 - 606 pągines
...a little distance. Then as the two of them stood there, Mr. Head breathed, "An artificial nigger!" It was not possible to tell if the artificial Negro...cocked at gave him a wild look of misery instead. "An artificial nigger!" Nelson repeated in Mr. Head's exact tone. The two of them stood there with...
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The Art and Vision of Flannery O'Connor

Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. - 1993 - 224 pągines
...— the "artificial nigger" of the title. The statue is weather-beaten and chipped, so much so that "it was not possible to tell if the artificial Negro...stretched up at the corners but the chipped eye and angle he was cocked at gave him a wild look of misery instead" (CS, 266, 268). Neither Mr. Head nor...
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Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture

Susan Gubar - 2000 - 356 pągines
...implies . A plaster figure of "a Negro sitting bent over on a low yellow brick fence" was obviously "meant to look happy because his mouth was stretched...cocked at gave him a wild look of misery instead" (268). Like O'Connor's statue of a Negro — which exists, according to her white characters, because...
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Seeing Into the Life of Things: Essays on Literature and Religious Experience

John L. Mahoney - 1998 - 388 pągines
...a sense of base abjectness, coalesces for Mr. Head and Nelson as a representation of their own sin: "It was not possible to tell if the artificial Negro...cocked at gave him a wild look of misery instead" (O'Connor, CS 268). The contradiction of the supposed happiness and the actual misery inscribed upon...
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Revising Flannery O'Connor: Southern Literary Culture and the Problem of ...

Katherine Hemple Prown - 2001 - 228 pągines
...figure, which suddenly catches his attention "like a cry out of the gathering dust," offers renewed hope: "It was not possible to tell if the artificial Negro...cocked at gave him a wild look of misery instead." The two can only stare in awe of the statue "as if they were faced with some great mystery, some monument...
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Intertextual Encounters in American Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture

Michael Dunne - 2001 - 236 pągines
...redemptive quality of the Negro's suffering for us all" (Habit of Being 78). The narrator first observes: "It was not possible to tell if the artificial Negro...cocked at gave him a wild look of misery instead." Then the narrator writes about the story's chief rustics: "The two of them stood there with their necks...
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Flannery O'Connor's Religious Imagination: A World with Everything Off Balance

George Kilcourse - 2001 - 340 pągines
...mirror for both characters to recognize their own misery in sin and their capacity for reconciliation: "It was not possible to tell if the artificial Negro...young or old; he looked too miserable to be either." O'Connor reinforces this perception by describing both Mr. Head and Nelson standing before the statue...
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Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s

W. T. Lhamon - 2002 - 338 pągines
...the statue perches on a yellow brick fence around an Atlanta lawn to eat a piece of brown watermelon: "He was meant to look happy because his mouth was...cocked at gave him a wild look of misery instead" (Complete 268). Nothing, she wrote to one correspondent, "screams out the tragedy of the South like...
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The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor

Christina Bieber Lake - 2005 - 282 pągines
...elements changed the object so that Nelson and Mr. Head now see something entirely different. For them "it was not possible to tell if the artificial Negro...cocked at gave him a wild look of misery instead" (CW, 229). Consistent with the operation of the "new jesus" in Wise Blood and with many of O'Connor's...
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Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence ...

Robert Jackson - 2005 - 194 pągines
...a little distance. Then as the two of them stood there, Mr. Head breathed, "An artificial nigger!" It was not possible to tell if the artificial Negro...cocked at gave him a wild look of misery instead. "An artificial nigger!" Nelson repeated in Mr. Head's exact tone. (229) In an important sense, the...
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