Ann Petry
Ann Petry: Selected full-text books and articles
Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II
University of Missouri Press, 1999
Librarian's tip: "Like a Winding Sheet" (p. 117), "In Darkness and Confusion” (p. 226), and “Olaf and His Girl Friend” (p. 396) by Ann Petry
PRIMARY SOURCE
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Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women
The University of North Carolina Press, 2015
Librarian's tip: "Ann Petry’s Harlem" begins on p. 129
Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel
Rutgers University Press, 2013
Librarian's tip: Chap. 2 "The Home and the Street: Ann Petry’s “Rage for Privacy”"
Artistic Discourse in Three Short Stories by Ann Petry
Women and Language, Vol. 22, No. 1, Spring 1999
PEER-REVIEWED PERIODICAL
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Rethinking Realism in Ann Petry's the Street
MELUS, Vol. 27, No. 4, Winter 2002
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"This Strange Communion": Surveillance and Spectatorship in Ann Petry's the Street
African American Review, Vol. 37, No. 1, Spring 2003
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"Raceless" Writing and Difference: Ann Petry's Country Place and the African-American Literary Canon
Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring 2005
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"It Could Have Been Any Street": Ann Petry, Stephen Crane, and the Fate of Naturalism
Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring 2006
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"Same Train Be Back Tomorrer": Ann Petry's the Narrows and the Repetition of History
MELUS, Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring 1999
PEER-REVIEWED PERIODICAL
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American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War
University of North Carolina Press, 2012
Librarian's tip: "Melville in Old Saybrook" begins on p. 179
Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
Greenwood Press, 1999
Librarian's tip: "Ann Petry (1908–1997)" begins on p. 377
American Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960
Chelsea House, vol.2, 2000
Librarian's tip: "Ann Petry" begins on p. 161
Modern Black American Fiction Writers
Chelsea House, 1995
Librarian's tip: "Ann Petry" begins on p. 122
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