![]() ![]() Bridge followed 10 years later, in 1969, following the legislative successes of the 1960s as well as the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr., John Kennedy and his brother Robert, and Malcolm X.īut both novels looked back to an earlier period, one at least partly reflecting Connell’s own boyhood in Kansas City. Bridge in the 1950s, in the era when the civil rights movement and conflicts over the grip of Jim Crow segregation were both growing. Bridge, contain numerous incidents that peel back the scab of genteel indifference and overt scorn that white Americans brought to race relations.Ĭonnell wrote Mrs. His two novels about a prosperous Kansas City family in the 1930s and ‘40s, Mrs. ![]() Connell, the writer largely known for his portrayals of domestic uneasiness in mid-20th century America, never shied from the realities of whiteness and race. ![]() Connell, appears as part of a package about me and Connell in an online feature of New Letters magazine: Įvan S. This essay, which I wrote before the publication of Literary Alchemist: The Writing Life of Evan S. ![]()
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