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[td][/td] [td]== Critical reception ==[/td]
[td]== Critical reception ==[/td] [td]''The Narrows'' is generally considered to be of high literary merit.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Taylor |first=Ivan |title=The Critical Response to Ann Petry |publisher=Praeger Publishers |year=1953 |editor-last=Arnett Ervin |editor-first=Hazel |pages=29 |chapter=Current Literature on Negro Education}}</ref> Though financially successfulโMargaret B. McDowell notes that ''The Narrows'' โhas sold over a million copiesโโthe novel did not receive the same sustained critical attention as Petryโs debut, ''The Street''.<ref>McDowell, Margaret B. โThe Narrows: A Fuller View of Ann Petry.โ <i>Black American Literature Forum</i> 14, no. 4 (1980): 135โ41. JSTOR 2904404. <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2904404">https://www.jstor.org/stable/2904404</a></ref> Critics have, however, emphasized its ambition and craft: Sybil Weir argues that the novel โreveals the maturing of Petryโs literary visionโ and calls for its revaluation.<ref>Weir, Sybil (1987). โThe Narrows: A Black New England Novel.โ <i>Studies in American Fiction</i> 15 (1): 81โ93. doi:10.1353/saf.1987.0020. ISSN 2158-415X.</ref>[/td]
[td]''The Narrows'' is generally considered to be of high literary merit.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Taylor |first=Ivan |title=The Critical Response to Ann Petry |publisher=Praeger Publishers |year=1953 |editor-last=Arnett Ervin |editor-first=Hazel |pages=29 |chapter=Current Literature on Negro Education}}</ref> Though financially successfulโMargaret B. McDowell notes that ''The Narrows'' โhas sold over a million copiesโโthe novel did not receive the same sustained critical attention as Petryโs debut, ''The Street''.<ref>McDowell, Margaret B. โThe Narrows: A Fuller View of Ann Petry.โ <i>Black American Literature Forum</i> 14, no. 4 (1980): 135โ41. JSTOR 2904404. <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2904404">https://www.jstor.org/stable/2904404</a></ref> Critics have, however, emphasized its ambition and craft: Sybil Weir argues that the novel โreveals the maturing of Petryโs literary visionโ and calls for its revaluation.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Weir |first=Sybil |date=1987 |title=The Narrows: A Black New England Novel |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/saf.1987.0020 |journal=Studies in American Fiction |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=81โ93 |doi=10.1353/saf.1987.0020 |issn=2158-415X|url-access=subscription }}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]=== Characters ===[/td]
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[td][/td] [td]=== Classification ===[/td]
[td]=== Classification ===[/td] [td]Scholars have examined the novel's classification as a [[Literature of New England|New England work]], rather than exclusively an [[African-American literature|African American]] one. According to critic Sybil Weir, "''The Narrows'' belongs to the tradition of domestic feminism and realism created primarily by New England women writers."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Weir |first=Sybil |date=1987 |title=The Narrows: A Black New England Novel |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/saf.1987.0020 |journal=Studies in American Fiction |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=81โ93 |doi=10.1353/saf.1987.0020 |issn=2158-415X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> One academic conference paper compares Petryโs ''The Narrows'' (1953), set in Connecticut, with [[Ralph Waldo Ellison]]'s [[Invisible Man|''Invisible Man'' (1952)]], focusing on Black masculinity and (in)visibility;<ref>{{cite web |last=Abdullah |first=Hogar Najm |title=1950s Black Masculinityโs Dilemmas of (In)Visibility in Ann Petryโs ''The Narrows'' and Ralph Ellisonโs ''Invisible Man'' |url=https://litere.uoradea.ro/litere202...the-narrows-and-ralph-ellison-s-invisible-man |website=Faculty of Letters, University of Oradea |date=2021-02-24 |access-date=September 3, 2025}}</ref> Ellisonโs novel opens in the U.S. South before moving to Harlem, New York City, situating both works largely in the American Northeast.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Milne |first=Drew |title=Invisible Man |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Invisible-Man |date=2025-08-08 |access-date=September 3, 2025}}</ref>[/td]
[td]Scholars have examined the novel's classification as a [[Literature of New England|New England work]], rather than exclusively an [[African-American literature|African American]] one. According to critic Sybil Weir, "''The Narrows'' belongs to the tradition of domestic feminism and realism created primarily by New England women writers."<ref name=":0" />[/td] [td]One academic conference paper compares Petryโs ''The Narrows'' (1953), set in Connecticut, with [[Ralph Waldo Ellison]]'s [[Invisible Man|''Invisible Man'' (1952)]], focusing on Black masculinity and (in)visibility;<ref>{{cite web |last=Abdullah |first=Hogar Najm |title=1950s Black Masculinityโs Dilemmas of (In)Visibility in Ann Petryโs ''The Narrows'' and Ralph Ellisonโs ''Invisible Man'' |url=https://litere.uoradea.ro/litere202...the-narrows-and-ralph-ellison-s-invisible-man |website=Faculty of Letters, University of Oradea |date=2021-02-24 |access-date=September 3, 2025}}</ref> Ellisonโs novel opens in the U.S. South before moving to Harlem, New York City, situating both works largely in the American Northeast.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Milne |first=Drew |title=Invisible Man |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Invisible-Man |date=2025-08-08 |access-date=September 3, 2025}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
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[td]== Critical reception ==[/td] [td]''The Narrows'' is generally considered to be of high literary merit.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Taylor |first=Ivan |title=The Critical Response to Ann Petry |publisher=Praeger Publishers |year=1953 |editor-last=Arnett Ervin |editor-first=Hazel |pages=29 |chapter=Current Literature on Negro Education}}</ref> Though financially successfulโMargaret B. McDowell notes that ''The Narrows'' โhas sold over a million copiesโโthe novel did not receive the same sustained critical attention as Petryโs debut, ''The Street''.<ref>McDowell, Margaret B. โThe Narrows: A Fuller View of Ann Petry.โ <i>Black American Literature Forum</i> 14, no. 4 (1980): 135โ41. JSTOR 2904404. <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2904404">https://www.jstor.org/stable/2904404</a></ref> Critics have, however, emphasized its ambition and craft: Sybil Weir argues that the novel โreveals the maturing of Petryโs literary visionโ and calls for its revaluation.<ref>Weir, Sybil (1987). โThe Narrows: A Black New England Novel.โ <i>Studies in American Fiction</i> 15 (1): 81โ93. doi:10.1353/saf.1987.0020. ISSN 2158-415X.</ref>[/td]
[td]''The Narrows'' is generally considered to be of high literary merit.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Taylor |first=Ivan |title=The Critical Response to Ann Petry |publisher=Praeger Publishers |year=1953 |editor-last=Arnett Ervin |editor-first=Hazel |pages=29 |chapter=Current Literature on Negro Education}}</ref> Though financially successfulโMargaret B. McDowell notes that ''The Narrows'' โhas sold over a million copiesโโthe novel did not receive the same sustained critical attention as Petryโs debut, ''The Street''.<ref>McDowell, Margaret B. โThe Narrows: A Fuller View of Ann Petry.โ <i>Black American Literature Forum</i> 14, no. 4 (1980): 135โ41. JSTOR 2904404. <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2904404">https://www.jstor.org/stable/2904404</a></ref> Critics have, however, emphasized its ambition and craft: Sybil Weir argues that the novel โreveals the maturing of Petryโs literary visionโ and calls for its revaluation.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Weir |first=Sybil |date=1987 |title=The Narrows: A Black New England Novel |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/saf.1987.0020 |journal=Studies in American Fiction |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=81โ93 |doi=10.1353/saf.1987.0020 |issn=2158-415X|url-access=subscription }}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]=== Characters ===[/td]
[td]=== Characters ===[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]=== Classification ===[/td]
[td]=== Classification ===[/td] [td]Scholars have examined the novel's classification as a [[Literature of New England|New England work]], rather than exclusively an [[African-American literature|African American]] one. According to critic Sybil Weir, "''The Narrows'' belongs to the tradition of domestic feminism and realism created primarily by New England women writers."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Weir |first=Sybil |date=1987 |title=The Narrows: A Black New England Novel |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/saf.1987.0020 |journal=Studies in American Fiction |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=81โ93 |doi=10.1353/saf.1987.0020 |issn=2158-415X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> One academic conference paper compares Petryโs ''The Narrows'' (1953), set in Connecticut, with [[Ralph Waldo Ellison]]'s [[Invisible Man|''Invisible Man'' (1952)]], focusing on Black masculinity and (in)visibility;<ref>{{cite web |last=Abdullah |first=Hogar Najm |title=1950s Black Masculinityโs Dilemmas of (In)Visibility in Ann Petryโs ''The Narrows'' and Ralph Ellisonโs ''Invisible Man'' |url=https://litere.uoradea.ro/litere202...the-narrows-and-ralph-ellison-s-invisible-man |website=Faculty of Letters, University of Oradea |date=2021-02-24 |access-date=September 3, 2025}}</ref> Ellisonโs novel opens in the U.S. South before moving to Harlem, New York City, situating both works largely in the American Northeast.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Milne |first=Drew |title=Invisible Man |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Invisible-Man |date=2025-08-08 |access-date=September 3, 2025}}</ref>[/td]
[td]Scholars have examined the novel's classification as a [[Literature of New England|New England work]], rather than exclusively an [[African-American literature|African American]] one. According to critic Sybil Weir, "''The Narrows'' belongs to the tradition of domestic feminism and realism created primarily by New England women writers."<ref name=":0" />[/td] [td]One academic conference paper compares Petryโs ''The Narrows'' (1953), set in Connecticut, with [[Ralph Waldo Ellison]]'s [[Invisible Man|''Invisible Man'' (1952)]], focusing on Black masculinity and (in)visibility;<ref>{{cite web |last=Abdullah |first=Hogar Najm |title=1950s Black Masculinityโs Dilemmas of (In)Visibility in Ann Petryโs ''The Narrows'' and Ralph Ellisonโs ''Invisible Man'' |url=https://litere.uoradea.ro/litere202...the-narrows-and-ralph-ellison-s-invisible-man |website=Faculty of Letters, University of Oradea |date=2021-02-24 |access-date=September 3, 2025}}</ref> Ellisonโs novel opens in the U.S. South before moving to Harlem, New York City, situating both works largely in the American Northeast.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Milne |first=Drew |title=Invisible Man |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Invisible-Man |date=2025-08-08 |access-date=September 3, 2025}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
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