Shatterings: violent disruptions of homeplace in Jubilee and The Street.(Ann Petry)(Margaret Walker)(essay)(Critical essay) From: MELUS | Date: December 22, 2005| Author: Davis, Amanda J. | COPYRIGHT 2005 The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnics Literature of the United States. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Two of the most influential novels to appear in twentieth-century American literature illustrate that establishing a home has often been a contested and complex pursuit for African Americans. Both Ann Petry's The Street and Margaret Walker's Jubilee carefully examine how attempts to find and maintain a home are continually met with violence and thwarted by prevailing social and economic injustices that pervade the boundaries of home and threaten to disrupt any resistance that has b...

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