Ann Lane Petry, Country Place

A Yemisi Jimoh (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Ed. by A Yemisi Jimoh, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.5: African American Writing and Culture of the United States.
Vol. editors: Philathia Bolton (University of Akron), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), A Yemisi Jimoh (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1947

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Ann Lane Petry consistently denied that she wrote as part of a literary school such as that of the social problem novelist – a category in which her first novel, The Street, is often placed – or that of the so-called raceless writer, a description that many readers and reviewers used in relation to her second novel Country Place. In interviews and essays, Petry has emphatically stated that her objective as a writer had always been to experiment in various forms, to do something different in each novel. In Country Place, in fact, she demonstrates that she is not a strict proponent of the sociological novel. The theme and setting of Petry's second novel do seemingly place it among other novels by African …

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Citation: Jimoh, A Yemisi. "Country Place". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 October 2002 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5829, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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