SOURCE: “The Sensory Assault of the City in Ann Petry's The Street,” in The City in African American Literature, edited and introduction, Yoshinobu Hakutani, and Robert Butler, 1995, pp. 196–211.
In the following essay, the author notes that Petry's effective use of sensory detail in The Street, unusual in a naturalistic novel, can be favorably compared with that of other masters of the urban novel.
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