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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Ann Petry"”.
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The Politics of Intermediality: Late Modernist Circulations of the Event
… Dora Maar, Langston Hughes, Jacob Lawrence, Ann Petry, Mina Loy, John Hersey, Shda Shinoe, and Nagai Takashi. The four chapters comprising this project take up fluctuating interactions among sonic, verbal, and visual mediations that were produced between 1927 and 1949, juxtaposing various …
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American Women Writers, Visual Vocabularies, and the Lives of Literary Regionalism
… Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, and Ann Petry--ground literary regionalism in the politics of writing places, but draw also from the arts of life writing circulating in the late nineteenth-century literary marketplace: through slave narratives, suffragist autobiographies, and travel …
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The Margins of the Market: Women Writers and the US Publishing Industry in the Long 1950s
… or subverted. The authors I consider here" Ann Petry, Dorothy B. Hughes, Laura Z. Hobson, Shirley Jackson, Carson McCullers, and Dorothy West" represent a spectrum of authors published in both trade and mass-market fiction. In Chapter One, I look at author-publisher relationships as …
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TRANSNATIONAL JAZZ AND BLUES: AURAL AESTHETICS AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC FICTION
… in World War I. In Chapter Two, I argue that Ann Petry fills her first novel <italic>The Street</italic> (1946) with a blues aesthetic that not only undergirds her representations of protest but also responds to the call for the use of vernacular forms in literature. In Chapter Three, I argue …
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Reading the middle: US women novelists and print culture, 1930-1960
"""Reading the Middle: US Women Novelists and Print Culture, 1930-1960"" is about feminist protest as a core value of the American bourgeoisie, bringing gender studies, digital humanities, and American literature and print culture together in analyses of a collection of thirty-plus novels of …