Author: Hilary Holladay
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 149
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The fiction of African-American author Ann Petry confronts prejudices of race, sex, and class and marks the ways the American dream of success and plenitude haunts, and ultimately mocks, those people who fail to achieve it. Petry calls her characters "the walking wounded." Betrayal, deep-seated anger, and murderous violence recur throughout her three novels, The Street (1946), Country Place (1947), and The Narrows (1953). Written midcentury, Petry's novels and stories are still more timely than one might like them to be, for they articulate the same pain and outrage documented by today's chroniclers of sexism and racism. In this first full-length critical study of Ann Petry's life and writings, Hilary Holladay examines the author's three novels as well as Miss Muriel and Other Stories (1971), Petry's collection of short fiction. Holladay's treatments of Petry's second novel, Country Place, and the collection of short stories - the first ever published by an African-American woman - fill gaps in existing scholarship by offering detailed readings of these previously underrepresented works. Sophisticated literary-critical analysis of Petry's works and careful consideration of the cultural and historical context in which the author wrote demonstrate the modernist aesthetic Petry's narratives share with the fiction of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf and buttress Holladay's arguments for the seminal position of Petry's oeuvre within African-American literature, and particularly within the tradition of African-American women's writing. Holladay reads Petry's stories and novels as dynamic portrayals of neighborhoods - communities within larger communities - where people's destructive attitudes toward each other shape the neighborhood's overall identity and influence the lives of all its residents, old or young, male or female, prosperous or poor, white or nonwhite. Petry's focus on the importance of relationships and neighborhoods anticipates and inspires the writings of younger African-American women such as Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor.
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Author: Alex Lubin
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617030024
Size: 44.99 MB
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Category : African American women in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 179
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Author: Susan Ware
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674014886
Size: 69.34 MB
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 729
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Entries on almost five hundred women representing a wide range of fields of endeavor are featured in a collection of biographical essays that integrate each woman's personal life with her professional achievements, set in the context of historical develop
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Author: Valerie Smith
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN: 9780684806402
Size: 32.84 MB
Format: PDF
Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 925
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Contains biographical and critical essays on the work of important African American writers.
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Author: College Language Association (U.S.)
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Size: 14.94 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages :
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Size: 70.76 MB
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages :
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Size: 36.10 MB
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Hazel Arnett Ervin
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
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Size: 54.31 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 115
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Author: Charles Edward May
Publisher: Salem PressInc
ISBN: 9780893560119
Size: 39.80 MB
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 3092
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Profiles more than four hundred authors of short fiction from around the world, presenting biographical and bibliographic information and summaries of major works. Also includes a reference volume with a chronology; a bibliography; lists of major award winners; twenty-nine essays on short-fiction history, theory, and world cultures; and three indexes.
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Author: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
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Size: 55.92 MB
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
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A record of the darker races.