Reader must first recognize her pregnancy. In order to understand Pinchy's significance in the novel, the Ways in which the oppressors' lives are controlled and stunted by The harms inflicted on the victims of racism and sexism but also of the Welty's novel contains a striking consideration not only of Offered under the camouflage of the surface story-ideas thatīecome more amenable to the reader's attention if they areĮxcavated as part of the natural process of unguarded reading. Might unnecessarily make wary or turn away the reader were they not According to Naoko Fuwa Thomton, Welty's "socialĪccommodate the author's motivation for expressing ideas that Individual ways of coping with or subverting the oppressions herĬharacters face in language that does not alienate even a conservative Instead, she reveals the damage done to individual lives and presents "crusade" in the sense of addressing polemic to her readers
(2) As many scholars have pointed out, Welty does not Their own complicity and will as a result adjust their moralĪllegiances.
Those sensitive to the story's racial dynamics will come to realize Performs, in effect placing readers in the story with the intention that WeltyĮncourages these readers to enact the same erasure that the text Of her characters and implicates readers in that very oppression. More intimate understanding of the workings of oppression in the lives Thing that cannot be spoken-at once draws perceptive readers into a Pinchy's pregnancy-veiling and erasing it until it becomes the As aĭefining Other, Pinchy provides the condition for white women to claimĪgency at her expense, but Pinchy also has the ability to resist and Violence inherent in Southern racial and sexual stratification. Pregnancy, as I will argue, is central to Welty's portrayal of the Possibilities for transgression and subversion grounded in women'sĬlaiming of sexual and maternal rights. The text suggest that through the depiction of maternity-both actualĪnd potential-Welty interrogates, first, the ways in which race, class,Īnd gender are constructed around motherhood and, second, the The lines connecting this diverse group of women throughout McHaney suggests) (1) and Pinchy, one of the Fairchilds' black The bride of the titular wedding herself, Dabney Fairchild (as Pearl Working-class outsider who has married into the Fairchilds Mary Denis,Ī Fairchild cousin who cannot attend the wedding because of her recentĬhildbirth the unnamed runaway girl whom Ellen encounters in the woods Potentially or rumored-to-be pregnant women populate the story: Ellenįairchild, the ideal and idolized plantation mother Robbie Reid, the Retrieved from ĮUDORA WELTY'S DELTA WEDDING PERCOLATES WITH WOMEN'SĮXPERIENCES of sexuality. APA style: Dark-purple faces and pitiful whiteness: maternity and coming through in Delta Wedding.Dark-purple faces and pitiful whiteness: maternity and coming through in Delta Wedding." Retrieved from 2009 Mississippi State University 27 Nov.
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