SOURCE: “The Witness,” in Studies of Black Literature, Vol. 6, Fall, 1975, pp. 24–26.
In the following essay, Madden offers an overall critique of the short story “The Witness,” stressing Petry's insights into the plight of African-Americans living in primarily white small towns.
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