Flannery O'Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage?

Jessica Hooten Wilson (PhD, Baylor University) is the Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She is the author or editor of eight books, including Reading for the Love of God, The Scandal of Holiness (winner of a Christianity Today 2023 Award of Merit), and Giving the Devil His Due: Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky (winner of a 2018 Christianity Today Book of the Year Award). Hooten Wilson speaks around the world on topics as varied as Russian novelists, Catholic thinkers, and Christian ways of reading.

• ContentsIntroductionWhy Do the Heathen Rage? The Porch SceneKoinoniaSequel to "The Enduring Chill"Why Do the Heathen Rage? Walter's Last Will and TestamentWhy Do the Heathen Rage? BaptismWhy Do the Heathen Rage? Walter/Asbury's ChildhoodWhy Do the Heathen Rage? Walter Recites the Ten CommandmentsEpistolary BlackfaceWhy Do the Heathen Rage? The Black DoubleMaryat Lee and Oona GibbsDocumenting "Real" LifeWhy Do the Heathen Rage? Photo JournalThe Revolting ConversionWhy Do the Heathen Rage? Do Not Come, Oona Gibbs!Introducing the GirlWhy Do the Heathen Rage? The GirlWho Is Oona Gibbs? Mother, Daughter, Aunt, Cousin, or LoverWhy Do the Heathen Rage? Walter's AuntBurning CrossesThe Violent Bear It Away: The Burnt CrossThe Other Half of the StoryAfterword by Steve Prince