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The radical fiction of Ann Petry [electronic resource] / Keith Clark.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xi, 257 pages )ISBN:
  • 9780807150672
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3531.E933 Z63 2013
Online resources:
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 1960s to the 2000s and beyond: Ann Petry's prescient vision.
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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.

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