Part 1: Reading O'Connor's Violence
And the Violent Bear It Away: O'Connor and the Menace of Apocalyptic Terrorism / Anthony Di Renzo
The Violence of Technique and the Technique of Violence / Christina Bieber Lake
God may Strike You Thisaway: Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil on Affliction and Joy / Ralph C. Wood
Eating the Bread of Life: Muted Violence in the Violent Bear It Away / J. Ramsey Michaels
Toward a Consistent Ethic of Life in O'Connor's A Stroke of Good Fortune / Linda Naranjo-Huebl
Part 2: Connecting O'Connor's Violence
Gory Stories: O'Connor and American Horror / Jon Lance Bacon
All the Dead Bodies: O'Connor and Noir / William Brevda
How the Symbol Means: Deferral vs. Confrontation in The Sound and the Fury and The Artificial Nigger / John D. Sykes Jr.
Violence, Nature, and Prophecy in Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy / Farrell O'Gorman
Shiftlet's Choice: O'Connor's Fordist Love Story / Doug Davis
Part 3: Theorizing O'Connor's Violence
O'Connor as Miscegenationist / Marshall Bruce Gentry
The Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Problems in Interpreting the Life of Flannery O'Connor / W.A. Sessions
Confinement and Violence, Flannery and Foucault / William Monroe
On Belief, Conflict, and Universality: Flannery O'Connor, Walter Benn Michaels and Slavoj Zizek / Thomas F. Haddox
Everything That Rises Does Not Converge: The State of O'Connor Studies / Robert Donahoo