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1	Taking Eudora Welty's Text Out of the Closet: Delta Wedding's George Fairchild and the Queering of Saint George Wallace, James R. 17 July 2009 (has links) Eudora Welty’s characterization of George Fairchild (Delta Wedding) queers the heroic masculine ideal, St George, whose legendary exploits have been popularized in narrative literature, Catholic iconography, and children’s fairy tale. Lauded by the Fairchild women for his “difference,” George’s sexuality offers him an identity apart from the suffocating Fairchild family myth. George Fairchild’s queer sexuality and homoeroticism augments our critical understanding of Delta Wedding, the character, as well as other characters. The author’s subtly politicized construction of the novel’s ostensible hero subverts literary tradition, the gender binary, and patriarchal myth. Eudora Welty Delta Wedding George Fairchild St. George Fairy tale Intertextuality Hero Gender Patriarchal myth Queer theory Difference Homosexuality Homoeroticism John Robinson Identity Family Family myth Chivalry Southern lady Southern gentleman English Language and Literature