Green Thursday: Stories Paperback - 1998
by Julia Peterkin; Foreword by Charles Joyner
Rejecting the prevailing sentimental stereotypes of her times, Julia Peterkin (1880-1961) portrayed her black characters with sympathy and understanding, endowing them with the full dimensions of human consciousness. In a series of stories and novels, she tapped the richness of rural southern black culture.
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Vividly rendering the sights, sounds, smells, and sensations of a bygone rural south, these closely connected stories revolve around the sometimes tragic lives of a black farming couple, Killdee and Rose Pinesett. When it first appeared in the 1920s, Green Thursday's unsentimental portrayal of African Americans was startlingly ahead of its time - enough so to inspire hate mail from white Southerners accusing the author, herself white, of betraying her race. At the same time, however, Green Thursday was praised by reviewers and social observers from all quarters, including W. E. B. Du Bois, who called it "a beautiful book".
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- Title Green Thursday: Stories
- Author Julia Peterkin; Foreword by Charles Joyner
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 232
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Georgia Press, US
- Date 1998-02-01
- ISBN 9780820319551 / 0820319554
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.52 x 5.18 x 0.52 in (19.10 x 13.16 x 1.32 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Plantation life
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97023317
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Library Journal, 05/01/1998, Page 144
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