Damaged Lives : Southern and Caribbean

Drawing on the theories of philosophers of ethics including Hannah Arendt and Alasdair MacIntyre, Damaged Lives: Southern and Caribbean Narrative from Faulkner to Naipaul studies how moral skepticism harms ordinary human beings. In response to an i

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

1

(10)

Faulkner, Canetti, and Survival

11

(16)

Ethics Adrift: Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem

27

(16)

Faulkner's Requiem for the Past

43

(14)

Fitzgerald's ``Dream of the South''

57

(12)

James Agee's Radical Honesty

69

(16)

Wise Blood: O'Connor's Vision of a Broken World

85

(20)

Redemption of Ordinary Delight: Mary Hood's Familiar Heat

105

(14)

Naipaul's Grief: The Enigma of Arrival

119

(12)

Bibliography

131

(4)

Index

135

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