The radical fiction of Ann Petry
Clark, Keith, 1963-
The radical fiction of Ann Petry [electronic resource] / Keith Clark. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (xi, 257 pages )
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-245) and index.
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.
9780807150672
Petry, Ann, 1908-1997 --Criticism and interpretation.
Electronic books.
PS3531.E933 / Z63 2013
813/.54
The radical fiction of Ann Petry [electronic resource] / Keith Clark. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (xi, 257 pages )
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-245) and index.
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.
9780807150672
Petry, Ann, 1908-1997 --Criticism and interpretation.
Electronic books.
PS3531.E933 / Z63 2013
813/.54