Rituals to Observe Stories about Holidays from the Flannery o'Connor Award for Short Fiction |
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Editor:
| Laughman, Ethan |
Contribution by:
| Adams, Gail Galloway Crouse, David Giles, Molly Glickfeld, Carole L. Gorman, Jacquelin LaSalle, Peter Lin-Greenberg, Karin Mandelbaum, Becky Miller, Alyce Nelson Oberhansly, Dianne Selgin, Peter Sheehy, Hugh Thompson, Sandra |
Series title: | Flannery o'Connor Award for Short Fiction Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8203-5658-7 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2019 |
Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $25.95 |
Book Description:
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These stories amount to something more than a celebration of the holidays dotting our calendars from month to month. Even though holidays can occasion a return to the familiar, these stories challenge traditional associations. Each story serves to complicate how we observe the human observation of holidays and offers a nuanced understanding of related themes such as family and motherhood, travel, grief and mourning processes, and memory. More generally, holidays are days of observance,...
More DescriptionThese stories amount to something more than a celebration of the holidays dotting our calendars from month to month. Even though holidays can occasion a return to the familiar, these stories challenge traditional associations. Each story serves to complicate how we observe the human observation of holidays and offers a nuanced understanding of related themes such as family and motherhood, travel, grief and mourning processes, and memory. More generally, holidays are days of observance, and that aspect alone offers a lot to unpack.