ann petry the street pdf

But Lutie continuously rewrites the citizens of Harlem not as hard and exploited workers, but rather as mere objects among other objects in, for everyone but her, an inevitably destroyed and destructive community. The disjunction between these two forms of narration is the primary location in which The Street performs both its literary and political work as a proletarian realist novel. In this sense, Lutie believes the fiction of racial difference, always blaming the lived and everyday crises of capitalist exploitation, from un- and under-employment to poverty to gendered and racialized violence, on some sort of actually-existing racial difference, even if, sometimes, this difference is coded as cultural. Safe platforms guarantee that your identity remains a secret. Cancel Overwrite Save.

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