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Informationen zum Autor HAZEL ARNETT ERVIN is Associate Professor of English at Morehouse College where she teaches composition and senior-level African American literature courses. She was a 2001 Fulbright Scholar in Barbados. She also co-authored Ann Petry's Short Fiction: Critical Essays (Praeger, 2004) with Hilary Holladay. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This collection of critical essays is the first work to examine the short stories of Ann Petry! a noted African American writer. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction Critical Essays A World Made Cunningly: A Closer Look at Ann Petry's Short Fiction by Gladys J. Washington Ann Petry and African Poetics: A Review of "Solo on the Drums" by Sheikh Umar Kamarah Folk Traditions in the Short Fiction of Ann Petry by Gladys J. Washington Artistic Discourse in Three Short Stories by Ann Petry by Nora Ruth Roberts Jazz/Blues Structure in Ann Petry's "Solo on the Drums" by Gayl Jones "Miss Muriel": Rewriting Innocence into Experience by Paul Wiebe "From a Thousand Different Points of View": The Multiple Masculinities of Ann Petry's "Miss Muriel" by Keith Clark Riot as Ritual: Ann Petry's "In Darkness and Confusion" by George R. Adams "Ain't No Room for Us Anywhere": Reading Ann Petry's "In Darkness and Confusion" as a Migration Narrative by Deidre Raynor Apartheid Among the Dead: Christian Laughter in Ann Petry's "The Bones of Louella Brown" by Gene Fendt The Narrator as Feminist Ally in Ann Petry's "The Bones of Louella Brown" by Amy Lee Taking the Cake: Ann Petry's "Has Anybody Seen Miss Dora Dean?" by Barbara Lewis "The Man Who Cried I Am": Reading Race, Class, and Gender in Ann Petry's "The Witness" by Carol E. Henderson Traumatic Reenactment and the Impossibility of African American Testimony in Ann Petry's "Like a Winding Sheet" and "The Witness" by Eve Tettenborn Bibliography Index About the Contributors ...
