TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clark,Keith
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The radical fiction of Ann Petry
SN  - 9780807150672
AV  - PS3531.E933 Z63 2013
U1  - 813/.54 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Baton Rouge
PB  - Louisiana State University Press
KW  - Petry, Ann,
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780807150672/
ER  -