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Ann Petry (United States Authors Series) Hardcover – July 15, 1996

by Hilary Holloday (Author)

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Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.

Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volumeaddresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writers work. A reader new to the work under examination will, after reading theAuthors Series, be compelled to turn to the originals, bringing to the reading a basic knowledge and fresh critical perspectives.

Each volume features:

A critical, interpretive study and explication of the authors works
A brief biography of the author
An accessible chronology outlining the life, work, and relevant historical background of the author
Aids for further study -- complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography and an index
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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 destructiveattitudes 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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Hilary Holladay, Ph.D., is currently an assistant professor of American literature at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 080577842X
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Twayne Publishers; 1st edition (July 15, 1996)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 149 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780805778427
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0805778427
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.8 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #5,272,304 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,643 in Children's Literary Criticism (Books)
- #1,793 in Black & African American Literary Criticism (Books)
- #2,737 in Women Author Literary Criticism

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Hilary Holladay is a writer and editor living in Orange County, Virginia. Tipton, new from Knox Robinson Publishing, is her first novel. Follow her blog, "Schemes, Dreams, and Some Thoughts About Poetry," at hilaryholladay.com.