![]() ![]() Today, I want to look at the illusory nature of the American Dream throughout the novel.įrom the outset of The Street, Lutie Johnson works to move her son, Bub, and herself away from the poverty and oppression that encompass their existence. Over the next few posts, I want to look at some of these moments. While I have issues with the novel, as I do with almost any text, Petry’s writing and her narrative highlight the illusions and myths of America, specifically for African Americans. This year, I decided to teach it, and I was glad I did. ![]() While I was in Norway, I found a Norwegian copy at a store and bought it. The only work, up to this point, that I had read from Petry was her short story “ Like a Winding Sheet.” A few years back, Keith Clark started talking to me about The Street, and others, in various spaces, kept saying it’s one of the best novels they have read. Like a lot of the texts that I teach in my classes, I hadn’t read Ann Petry’s The Street before I assigned it in this semester’s Multicultural American Literature course. ![]()
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