SOURCE: “The Triumph of Naturalism,” in The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition, Bernard W. Bell, University of Massachusetts Press, 1987, pp. 178–183.
In the following excerpt from a chapter entitled “Richard Wright and the Triumph of Naturalism” in his full-length study of the history of the African-American novel, Bell claims that Petry moves beyond the naturalism of Wright and Chester Himes to debunk myths about African-Americans and American culture.
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