Ann Petry's Short Fiction: Critical Essays
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Ann Petry's Short Fiction: Critical Essays
By (Author) Hazel A. Ervin
Edited by Hilary W. Holladay
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
30th May 2004
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
813.54
Physical Properties
Hardback
208
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
425g
Description
This collection of critical essays is the first work to examine the short stories of Ann Petry, a noted African American writer. While best known for her best-selling debut novel, The Street, the focus of this text is her equally important, but less familiar, volume of short stories Miss Muriel and Other Stories. Within Ann Petry's Short Fiction: Critical Essays, contributors from a variety of disciplines, from literary studies to philosophy, analyze and comment on stories such as Mother Africa, In Darkness and Confusion, and The Witness. Organized into three parts, the first section provides an overview of Petry's short fiction from different theoretical perspectives. In the following two segments, essays are arranged in chronological order, beginning with Petry's work from the 1940s. Contributors discuss her portrayal of characters and conflict as well as thematic threads that run through Petry's work. Taken together, these 14 essays constitute an invaluable companion to Petry's work. This illuminating collection will interest scholars of literature, history, and culture, as well as anyone interested in the fiction of Ann Petry.
Reviews
Essayists from a wide variety of disciplines come together to offer important stories by Ann Petrie.-American Literature
Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.-Choice
"Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty."-Choice
"Essayists from a wide variety of disciplines come together to offer important stories by Ann Petrie."-American Literature
Author Bio
HAZEL ARNETT ERVIN is Associate Professor of English, Department of English, Morehouse College. HILARY HOLLADAY is a Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where she teaches African American Literature, Literature of the Beat Movement, and Modern Poetry. She is the author of Ann Petry (Twayne, 1996) and Wild Blessings: The Poetry of Lucille Clifton (LSU Press, 2004).
