The Ugliest Pilgrim (story) (1969)The Violet who boards the bus is judgmental about her fellow passengers and casually racist. Her free use of the “n-word” is downright jarring to read nowadays and she says she’d take a pass on being healed if it included giving her black skin. But she eventually accepts–indeed, more than accepts–her compatriots and, after disappointment in Tulsa, her own condition. It’s a lovely story. (Reviewed:) Grade: (B+) Tweet Websites:-WIKIPEDIA: Doris Betts -COLLECTION: Doris Betts Papers, 1932-2012 (UNC: Wilson Special Collections Library) -FILMOGRAPHY: Dors Betts (IMDB) -ENTRY: Doris Betts (Playbill) -ENTRY: Doris Betts (Calvin Center for Faith and Writing) -ENTRY: Doris Betts (North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame) ENTRY: Doris Betts (Broadway World) -ENTRY: Doris Betts (The Carolina Story) -ENTRY: Doris Betts (Encyclopedia.com) -PUBLISHER PAGE: Doris Betts (Simon & Schuster) -OBIT: Doris Betts, Novelist in Southern Tradition, Dies at 79 (Paul Vitello, 4/25/12, NY Times) -TRIBUTE: Remembering Doris Betts (Maurice C. York, September 16, 2022< North Caroline Literary Review) -TRIBUTE: Tribute to Doris Betts (South Writ Large) -TRIBUTE: Doris Betts (Marianne Gingher, Chapter & Verse) -AUDIO: #56: Doris Betts 1994: Doris Betts reads from her novel, Souls Raised from the Dead (1994 Festival of Faith & Writing, June 16, 2022) -ESSAY: Everything I? know about writing I learned in? Sunday school (Doris Betts, October 21, 1998, Christian Century) -INTERVIEW: A Conversation with Doris Betts (Greene, Marti, Spring 2000, ? The Carolina Quarterly) -PROFILE: 225 Years of Tar Heels: Doris Betts: A creative writing and English professor at Carolina for 35 years, Doris Betts published six novels and three collections of short stories. (University Communications, Wednesday, April 24th, 2019, UNC) -ETEXT The Ugliest Pilgrim by Doris Betts [pdf] -WIKIPEDIA: The Ugliest Pilgrim -STUDY GUIDE: Violet (Nashville Repertory Theater) -WIKIPEDIA: Southern Gothic -ENTRY: Southern gothic American literature (Encyclopaedia Britannica) -STUDY GUIDE: The Ugliest Pilgrim (eNotes) -STUDY GUIDE: The Ugliest Pilgrim (eNotes) -STUDY GUIDE: The Ugliest Pilgrim (Course Hero) -STUDY GUIDE: The Ugliest Pilgrim (Prezi) -ESSAY: Ridin’, Readin’, and “The Ugliest Pilgrim” (Marlin Barton) -DISSERTATION: The Judgement of Southern Motherhood in Works by Doris Betts, Gail Godwin, Dorothy Allison, and Kaye Gibbons (Jennifer Martin, Fall 2019, University of South Carolina) -ESSAY: Mapping the Heart's Home: Doris Betts's "The Astronomer" (John Lang, Fall 1998, The Southern Literary Journal) -ESSAY: Doris Betts, a Greyhound Bus, and an Academy Award (UNC Libraries: History on the Hill) -ESSAY: Faith and the unanswerable questions: the fiction of Doris Betts (David Marion Holman, Fall 1982, The Southern Literary Journal) -ESSAY: Doris Betts and Reynolds Price: Filling the empty space (D.G. Martin, May 28, 2012, Chapelboro.com) -REVIEW ARCHIVE: Doris Betts (Kirkus) -ARCHIVES: Betts, Doris (Internet Archive) -REVIEW: of Beasts of the Southern Wild by Doris Betts (Michael Mewshaw, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW: of The Ugliest Pilgrim (Dionne Blasingame, Literatures and Foreign Languages) -REVIEW: of Heading West by Doris Betts (Beth Gutcheon, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW: of Heading West (eNotes) -REVIEW: of Souls Raised from the Dead by Doris Betts (Kirkus) -REVIEW: of The Astronomer and Other Stories by Doris Betts (Earle Labor,? Studies in Short Fiction) -REVIEW: of The Sharp Teeth of Love by Doris Betts (Kirkus) -REVIEW: of Sharp Teeth of Love (Publishers Weekly) REVIEW: of Sharp Teeth of Love by Doris Betts (review) Charlotte M. Wright, The Western Literature Association -REVIEW: of Doris Betts by Elizabeth Evans (Irving Malin, ? Southern Quarterly) FILM -FILMOGRAPHY: Dors Betts (IMDB) -FILMOGRAPHY: Violet (1981) (IMDB) -WIKIPEDIA: Violet (musical) -REVIEW ESSAY: Cultural Ideals of Beauty, Invisible Scars, and the Journey to Find Wholeness in VIOLET – by Quinn North (Ted Collins, Olathe Theater) Book-related and General Links: |
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