SOURCE: “A Distaff Dream Deferred? Ann Petry and the Art of Subversion,” in African-American Review, Vol. 26, Fall, 1992, pp. 495–505.
In the following essay, the author provides a post-structuralist reading of The Street, with emphasis on the ways in which Petry's protagonist casts the American Dream in the context of her own black female experience.
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