African American Masculinities in Ann Petry's Works

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Hogar Najm Abdullah

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The book demonstrates an important addition to the currently developing criticism on Ann Petry’s works by enriching the interpretation of her oeuvre through a complex, intersectional reading, contributing to the global reception of this American author. With his interpretation, Hogar Najm Abdullah has successfully shown that through a black woman author’s perspective, Petry’s African American male characters can escape essentialist categorization(s) and build fluid identities; what is more, through an intersectional reading the characters also display a considerable potential in raising awareness about the pitfalls of categorical thinking. Petry’s legacy, as the author proved with his original contribution, lies thus in the progressive aesthetics represented by the ingenious identity-capacity of her complex black male characters, a strategy with which Petry successfully transgresses the confinement of the protest genre category. 

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Hogar Najm Abdullah

Hogar Najm Abdullah is a faculty member at the University of Duhok in Iraq. He recently obtained his doctoral degree from the English and American Literatures and Cultures Program at the University of Szeged in Hungary, supported by the Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship. He holds a master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Sheffield in Britain. His research interests encompass (African) American fiction, gender studies, and race/ethnicity studies in literature. Currently, his focus lies in the representations of black masculinities in the works of Ann Petry. He has participated in various local and international conferences and has published scholarly articles and book reviews on Ann Petry, as well as on intersectional issues of race, gender, and class, among others, in diverse Hungarian and international publications.

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July 17, 2024

Részletek a rendelkezésre álló kiadványformátumról: ePub

ePub

ISBN-13 (15)

978-615-5423-90-1

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2024

Részletek a rendelkezésre álló kiadványformátumról: PoD

PoD

ISBN-13 (15)

978-615-5423-89-5

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Abdullah, Hogar Najm. 2024. African American Masculinities in Ann Petry’s Works. AMERICANA eBooks. https://doi.org/10.14232/americana.books.2024.aamapw.