The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry /

This study offers an analysis of the works of Ann Petry (1908-1997), a major mid-twentieth-century African American author. Primarily known as the sole female member of the "Wright School of Social Protest," Petry has been most recognized for her 1946 novel The Street, about a woman's...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Clark, Keith, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Petry, Ann, > 1908-1997.
Petry, Ann, > 1908-1997 > Criticism and interpretation.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The "literary bones" of Ann Petry : excavating and re-situating a reluctant icon
  • From gangsta to gothic : Ann Petry's unbounded aesthetic universe
  • Black boys, hoods, and wannabes : images of imperiled Black manhood in The Narrows
  • Masculine angst revisited : the anguished Black men of "Like a winding sheet," "Has anybody seen Miss Dora Dean?" and "Miss Muriel"
  • "Oppositional gothic" : the street and Ann Petry's place in the literature of terror
  • Haunting/haunted B(l)ack : tormented and tormenting souls in "The bones of Louella Brown" and "The witness"
  • "Entombed while still alive" : images of domestic terror and monstrousness in Country Place
  • "A queer mixture of violence and love and hate and terror" : (wannabe) gangsta, gothic, and grotesquerie in "In darkness and confusion"
  • Conclusion : from the 1960s to the 2000s and beyond : Ann Petry's prescient vision.

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