Revising the blueprint : Ann Petry and the literary left
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Revising the blueprint : Ann Petry and the literary left
(Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies)
University Press of Mississippi, [2011], c2007
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Note
"First edition 2007"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 167-173
Includes index
Contents of Works
- Ann Petry's "New mirror" / Rachel Rubin and James Smethurst
- Object lessons : fetishization and class consciousness in Ann Petry's The street / Bill V. Mullen
- Pulping Ann Petry : the case of Country place / Paula Rabinowitz
- Invisible hands at work : domestic service and meritocracy in Ann Petry's novels / Rachel Peterson
- The home and the street : the dialectics of racial privacy in Ann Petry's early career / John Charles
- Counter-modernity, black masculinity, and female silence in Ann Petry's fiction / Melina Vizcaíno-Alemán
- Hunting communists and negroes in Ann Petry's The narrows / Farah Jasmine Griffin
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John Charles, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Bill V. Mullen, Rachel Peterson, Paula Rabinowitz, Rachel Rubin, James Smethurst, Melina Vizcaino-Aleman The essayists in Revising the Blueprint: Ann Petry and the Literary Left examine Ann Petry's relationship to left-wing political circles in the years following World War II. Anthologies dedicated to African American writing, even those that consider the African American literary left, often exclude Petry (1908-1997). These essayists demonstrate how Petry's literary art, as well as her engagement in various community struggles, landed her squarely in a variety of progressive communities. Through analyses of Petry's three novels, her short fiction, and her nonfiction, scholars identify her literary forms and aesthetics, including pulp fiction, Marxist analysis, literary naturalism, and the realism Petry used to explore early Cold War racial, sexual, and class politics. Although Petry is not readily placed in leftist circles, the essays collected here show her engagement in a number of events centered in post-WWII Harlem, such as the Bronx Slave Market protest concerning treatment of African American female domestic workers and her role as contributor to Harlem's radical periodical, the People's Voice. Essays show that Petry's writing provides an important link between the Popular Front of the 1930s and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Alex Lubin, assistant professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico, is the author of Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954, published by University Press of Mississippi.
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