Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019)

The Modern Expression of Prophet in Flannery O'Connor's "Parker's Back"

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Mengxian Han
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Mengxian Han
Available Online July 2019.
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10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.240How to use a DOI?
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Flannery O'Connor; "Parker's Back"; prophet; the southern grotesque
Abstract

As one of the last works written by Flannery O'Connor, the Southern American writer, "Parker's Back" tells a story about the spiritual quest of a tattoo enthusiast, Parker. Research on this short story does not abound compared with that on O'Connor's other representative works, and in the corpus of it, great attention is often focused on tattooing and Parker’s conversion. Since O'Connor's works are featured by prophet-like figures, this paper sheds light on Parker's identity as a prophet in O'Connor's southern context. Two parts will be covered. In the first part, some connections are explored between the protagonist in the story and the Old Testament prophets. The second part demonstrates Parker's southern grotesqueness as a prophet. Hopefully, this paper can provide a relatively different perspective and moreover enrich corresponding research.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
July 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-752-2
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.240How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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