Ann Petry's short fiction : critical essays /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Ervin, Hazel Arnett, Holladay, Hilary
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2004.
Series:	Contributions in Afro-American and African studies. no. 209.
Subjects:	Petry, Ann, > 1908-1997 > Criticism and interpretation. Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century. African Americans in literature. New England > In literature. Short story.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Hazel Arnett Ervin and Hilary Holladay
Chronology
A World Made Cunningly: A Closer Look at Ann Petry's Short Fiction / Gladys J. Washington
Ann Petry and African Poetics: A Review of "Solo on the Drums" / Sheikh Umar Kamarah
Folk Traditions in the Short Fiction of Ann Petry / Gladys J. Washington
Artistic Discourse in Three Short Stories by Ann Petry / Nora Ruth Roberts
Jazz/Blues Structure in Ann Petry's "Solo on the Drums" / Gayl Jones
"Miss Muriel": Rewriting Innocence into Experience / Paul Wiebe
"From a Thousand Different Points of View": The Multiple Masculinities of Ann Petry's "Miss Muriel" / Keith Clark
Riot as Ritual: Ann Petry's "In Darkness and Confusion" / George R. Adams
"Ain't No Room for Us Anywhere": Reading Ann Petry's "In Darkness and Confusion" as a Migration Narrative / Deirdre Raynor
Apartheid Among the Dead; Or, On Christian Laughter in Ann Petry's "The Bones of Louella Brown" / Gene Fendt
The Narrator as Feminist Ally in Ann Petry's "The Bones of Louella Brown" / Amy Lee
Taking the Cake: Ann Petry's "Has Anybody Seen Miss Dora Dean?" / Barbara Lewis
"The Man Who Cried I am": Reading Race, Class and Gender in Ann Petry's "The Witness" / Carol E. Henderson
Traumatic Reenactment and the Impossibility of African American Testimony in Ann Petry's "Like a Winding Sheet" and "The Witness" / Eve Tettenborn.