Clark, Keith, 1963-
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2013]
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-245) and index.
- The literary bones of Ann Petry: excavating and re-situating a reluctant icon — From gangsta to gothic: Ann Petry’s unbounded aesthetic universe — Black boys, hoods, and wannabes: images of imperiled Black manhood in the narrows — Masculine angst revisited: the anguished Black men of Like a winding sheet, Has anybody seen Miss Dora Dean? and Miss Muriel — Oppositional gothic : the street and Ann Petry’s place in the literature of terror — Haunting/haunted b(l)ack: tormented and tormenting souls in The bones of Louella Brown and The witness — Entombed while still alive : images of domestic terror and monstrousness in Country place — A queer mixture of violence and love and hate and terror : (wannabe) gangsta, gothic, and grotesquerie in In darkness and confusion — Conclusion: from the 1960s to the 2000s and beyond: Ann Petry’s prescient vision.
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