tallblackguy's review
2.0
I read Eudora Welty because she was someone who's been lauded as a writer who is fundamentally Southern, and as Mississippi as they come. As problematic as that state's history has been towards a history of people like me, and having produced one side of my family, I was eager to read her writing.
I'm not saying that it isn't, in its own way, classic, but I'm not sure if that's simply a product of the bar being set really low for Mississippians in the arts anyway. Her writings evoke scenes and emotions, and she is quite capable of spinning a yarn and detailing facts. It just wasn't anything special to me. Besides the utter rage I felt as she described the white racist's thought process in "Where Is The Voice Coming From?", one of her more well-known works. Other than that, not much else.
I'm not saying that it isn't, in its own way, classic, but I'm not sure if that's simply a product of the bar being set really low for Mississippians in the arts anyway. Her writings evoke scenes and emotions, and she is quite capable of spinning a yarn and detailing facts. It just wasn't anything special to me. Besides the utter rage I felt as she described the white racist's thought process in "Where Is The Voice Coming From?", one of her more well-known works. Other than that, not much else.
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