How Ethan Hawke’s Flannery O’Connor Biopic Confronts the Author’s Controversial Legacy
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 8, 2023
Flannery O’Connor, the gothic short story writer born in Savannah, Georgia, was, in her own words, “an integrationist by principle and a segregationist by taste.” Born in 1925 and now regarded as one of her generation’s greatest and most pointed authors, she used the N-word freely in her correspondence. According to an article in The New Yorker, she felt uncomfortable sitting . . .
