SOURCE: “Reading Ann Petry's The Narrows into Black Tradition,” in Recovering Writers/Recovering Texts, edited by Dolan Hubbard, University of Tennessee Press, 1997, pp. 116–127.
In the following essay, a black feminist critic urges a re-evaluation of Petry's The Narrows, a novel the critic thinks has been underrated by male critics since the 1950s.
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