{"product_id":"the-radical-fiction-of-ann-petry-hardcover","title":"The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKeith Clark\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis welcome study delivers a long-overdue analysis of the works of Ann Petry (1908-1997), a major mid-twentieth-century African American author. Primarily known as the sole female member of the \"Wright School of Social Protest,\" Petry has been most recognized for her 1946 novel \u003ci\u003eThe Street, \u003c\/i\u003e about a woman's struggle to raise her son in a hardscrabble Harlem neighborhood. Keith Clark moves beyond assessments of Petry as a sort of literary descendent of Richard Wright to acclaim her innovative approaches to gender performance, sexuality, and literary technique. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEngaging a variety of disciplinary frameworks, including gothic criticism, masculinity and gender studies, queer theory, and psychoanalytic theory, Clark offers fresh readings of Petry's three novels and collection of short stories. Clark explores, for example, Petry's use of terror in The Street, where both blacks and whites appear physically and psychically monstrous. He also identifies the use of dark comedy and the macabre in her startling depictions of race, class, gender construction, and sexual identity in the stories \"The Bones of Louella Brown\" and \"The Witness.\" Petry's overlooked second novel, \u003ci\u003eCountry Place\u003c\/i\u003e--set in a deceptively serene, bucolic Connecticut hamlet--camouflages a world as palsied and nightmarish as the Harlem of her previous work. While confirming the black feminist dimensions of Petry's writing, Clark also assesses the writer's representations of an array of black and white masculine behaviors--some socially sanctioned, others transgressive and taboo--in her unheralded masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Narrows, \u003c\/i\u003e and her widely anthologized short story, \"Like a Winding Sheet.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExpansive in scope, \u003ci\u003eThe Radical Fiction of Ann Petry\u003c\/i\u003e foregrounds and analyzes Petry's unique concerns and agile techniques, re-introducing and situating her among more celebrated male contemporaries.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeith Clark is the author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of \u003ci\u003eContemporary Black Men's Fiction and Drama\u003c\/i\u003e. He is an associate professor of English and African American studies at George Mason University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.6 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 03, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757678919968,"sku":"9780807150665","price":72.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/03079c08efda7358cc483cc5a30def1e.webp?v=1780108710","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-radical-fiction-of-ann-petry-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}