Review

“Readers will welcome this book into the academy, for it captures the intellectual scholarship of “black textualities and psychoanalysis,” especially of familiar and classic African American female and male characters.”-- Hazel Arnett Ervin, Fulbright Scholar and UNCF/Mellon Fellow and editor of African American Literary Criticism; The Handbook of African American Literature; Ann Petry: A Bio-Bibliography; Ann Petry’s Short Fiction: Critical Essays(with Hilary Holladay) and The Critical Responses to Ann Petry

About the Author

Kimberly S. Drake is Director of the Writing Program and Visiting Associate Professor at Scripps College.