Research Catalog

Title

Revising the blueprint : Ann Petry and the literary left / edited by Alex Lubin.

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Lubin, Alex.

Description

vii, 179 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

Subjects

• Right and left (Political science) in literature
• Race in literature
• African Americans in literature
• Sex role in literature
• Petry, Ann, 1908-1997 > Political and social views
• Petry, Ann, 1908-1997 > Criticism and interpretation
• African American women in literature
• Class consciousness in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-173) and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 07-6267

ISBN

• 9781578069712 (alk. paper)
• 1578069718 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2007001527

OCLC

78893176

Title

Revising the blueprint : Ann Petry and the literary left / edited by Alex Lubin.

Imprint

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

Edition

1st ed.

Series

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-173) and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Added Author

Lubin, Alex.

Research Call Number

JFE 07-6267

Sc E 08-461