Presenting the first full-length collection of essays on Eudora Weltyâs novel, Delta Wedding (1946), this volume is the fourth book in Rodopi Pressâs Dialogue Series. Within these pages, emerging and experienced literary critics engage in an exciting dialogue about Weltyâs noted novel, presenting a wide range of scholarship that focuses on feminist concerns, pays tribute to the rhetoric of exclusion and empowerment, examines the role of outsider and boundaries, explores meaning-making, and highlights the novelâs humor and musicality. This volume will no doubt be of interest to Welty aficianados as well as southern studies and feminist scholars and to those who are interested in the craft of writing fiction.
General Editorâs Preface
Introduction
Music and Humor
Barbara SYLVESTER: The Delta Wedding Blues
Tereza MARQUES de OLIVEIRA LIMA: Delta Wedding: an Intricate Design of Humor and Celebration
Agency
Julia EICHELBERGER: âThe Way for Girls in the Worldâ: Lauraâs Escape from Drowning in Delta Wedding
Elizabeth CREWS: âCixousâ New Woman: Laura and Shelley in Eudora Weltyâs Delta Wedding Meaning making
Cecilia DONOHUE: â. . . nothing really, nothing really so very much happenedâ: Indeterminate Meaning in Eudora
Weltyâs Delta Wedding
Imola BÃLGÃZDI: Probing the Limits of the Self
Paula Elyseu MESQUITA: âThe anger, the love, the pride, and rest of marriageâ: Women and Wedlock Ideology in Eudora Weltyâs Delta Wedding Outsiders and Insiders
Mae MILLER CLAXTON: Outlaws and Indians: Eudora Weltyâs âBorderâ Characters in Delta Wedding
Liza KRAMER: âSeeing Things as They Really Are in Mississippiâ: Delta Weddingâs Anatomy of Pure White Womanhood
Reine Dugas BOUTON: Knowledge, Power, and Rhetoric in Eudora Weltyâs Delta Wedding
Notes on Contributors
Index