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020 _a9780807150672
020 _z9780807150665 (cloth : alk. paper)
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_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aPS3531.E933
_bZ63 2013
082 0 0 _a813/.54
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100 1 _aClark, Keith,
_d1963-
245 1 4 _aThe radical fiction of Ann Petry
_h[electronic resource] /
_cKeith Clark.
260 _aBaton Rouge :
_bLouisiana State University Press,
_c[2013]
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (xi, 257 pages )
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 213-245) and index.
505 0 _aThe "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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
600 1 0 _aPetry, Ann,
_d1908-1997
_xCriticism and interpretation.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780807150672/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c32596
_d32596