Ann Lane Petry consistently denied that she wrote as part of a literary school such as that of the social problem novelist – a category in which her first novel,
The Street, is often placed – or that of the so-called raceless writer, a description that many readers and reviewers used in relation to her second novel
Country Place. In interviews and essays, Petry has emphatically stated that her objective as a writer had always been to experiment in various forms, to do something different in each novel. In
Country Place, in fact, she demonstrates that she is not a strict proponent of the sociological novel. The theme and setting of Petry's second novel do seemingly place it among other novels by African American writers, such as Willard Motley, Zora Neale Hurston, Chester Himes,…
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Citation: Jimoh, A Yemisi. "Country Place". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 October 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5829, accessed 16 April 2024.]
