The radical fiction of Ann Petry / Keith Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Keith, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature.

Petry, Ann, 1908-1997--Criticism and interpretation.

Petry, Ann.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This welcome study delivers a long-overdue 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 struggle to raise her son in a hardscrabble Harlem neighborhood. Keith Clark moves beyond assessments of Petry as a sort of literary descendent of Richard Wright to acclaim her innovative approaches to gender performance, sexuality, and literary technique.Engaging a variety of disciplinary...

Contents:

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 1960's to the 2000's and beyond: Ann Petry's prescient vision.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807150689

0807150681

9780807150672

0807150673

OCLC:

841229170