Eudora Welty’s Fiction and Photography: The Body of the Other Woman (The New Southern Studies)

Drawing on the context in which the protection of the white female body is linked with guarding the U.S. southern body politic, Pollack traces a pattern in Eudora Welty’s fiction in which a sheltered middle-class daughter is disturbed or delighted by an other-class woman who takes pleasure in “making a spectacle” of her corporeal self.