Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Wallace, James R. Author's Email Address jwallace4@student.gsu.edu URN etd-07172009-110754 Title TAKING EUDORA WELTY’S TEXT OUT OF THE CLOSET: DELTA WEDDING’S GEORGE FAIRCHILD AND THE QUEERING OF SAINT GEORGE Degree Master of Arts Department English Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Dr. Pearl Amelia McHaney Committee Chair Dr. Calvin Thomas Committee Member Dr. Thomas McHaney Committee Member Keywords
- Eudora Welty
- Delta Wedding
- George Fairchild
- St. George
- Fairy tale
- Intertextuality
- Hero
- Gender
- Patriarchal myth
- Queer theory
- Difference
- Homosexuality
- Homoeroticism
- John Robinson
- Identity
- Family
- Family myth
- Chivalry
- Southern lady
- Southern gentleman
Date of Defense 2009-07-16 Availability unrestricted Abstract Eudora Welty’s characterization of George Fairchild (Delta Wedding) queers the heroic masculine ideal, St George, whose legendary exploits have been popularized in narrative literature, Catholic iconography, and children’s fairy tale. Lauded by the Fairchild women for his “difference,” George’s sexuality offers him an identity apart from the suffocating Fairchild family myth. George Fairchild’s queer sexuality and homoeroticism augments our critical understanding of Delta Wedding, the character, as well as other characters. The author’s subtly politicized construction of the novel’s ostensible hero subverts literary tradition, the gender binary, and patriarchal myth.Files
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