An illuminating comparison of Ann Petry s
The Street and Gwendolyn Brooks s
Maud Martha with Cynthia Kadohata s
The Floating World and Chang-rae Lee s
Native Speaker by You-me Park and Gayle Wald ( Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres,
AL 70: 607-33) establishes the extent to which minority literature represents the boundaries between public and private spheres in the United States and how these boundaries reinforce and overlap class and gender lines. The critics conclusion is that both the African American and Asian American groups are feminized (in the sense of being marked under the sign of the feminine).
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A member of the Grub Street writing community and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Lynn K. Sheridan focuses her creative energies on writing short stories and middle-grade novels and is currently working on “a middle-grade novel about a boy determined to save his town from being dissolved and forgotten.” Her short story “The House on Willow Street” was the winner of the
Post’s 2021 Great American Fiction Contest.
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