Três autoras e a experiência americana

Abstract

A reflection concerning the effect of two terrible world wars and the great economic depression of the 1930’s on American life during the second half of the 20th cetury. This effect is clearly refected in the literature of the period, as one might well expect. But, in a very special way, the immense psychological and moral damage wreaked upon the population of the United States by these events can be found in the writings of three American women: Flannery O’Connor, who calls the attention of the readers of her fiction to the need for a Christian perception of human life; Carson McCullers, whose fictional characters suffer the psychological and spiritual isolation experenced by the majority of human beings, even in the midst of a multitude, and Toni Morrison, who writes about the eternal problem of racism in the United States and the negative effects of a dominant white culture on the black population of America.