Country Place (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ann Lane
- First Published: 1947
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The late 1940’s
- Setting: Lennox, Connecticut
- Principal Characters: Johnnie Roane, Mrs. Bertha Laughton Gramby, Glory Roane, Lillian Gramby, The Weasel, Pop Fraser
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Northeast, U.S., Class conflict, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Murder or homicide, 1940’s, Prejudices or antipathies, Class consciousness, New England, Violence, Connecticut, Death or dying, Good and evil, Revenge, Storms, Veterans, Wills
- Locales: Lennox, CT
The Novel
Country Place is a departure both from Ann Petry’s first novel, The Street (1946), and from African American literary tradition. Country Place focuses on a community of main characters who are predominantly white; the book’s minor characters are of varying ethnicities and cultures within a small, rural New England town. The conflicts that arise between the characters, however, are conflicts of class. Petry focuses on the demarcation between the aristocratic and working classes to expose the town’s underlying foundations of bigotry, malice,...
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