<p>Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the African American experience. Rejecting the prevailing sentimental stereotypes of her times, she portrayed her black characters with sympathy and understanding, endowing them with the full dimensions of human consciousness. In these novels and stories, she tapped the richness of rural southern black culture and oral traditions to capture the conflicting realities in an African American community and to reveal a grace and courage worthy of black pride.</p>

Black April: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Peterkin, Julia

United States

University of Georgia Press

Bright Skin: A Novel

Green Thursday: Stories

Scarlet Sister Mary: A Novel

Univ of Georgia Pr

Scarlet Sister Mary: A Novel (Brown Thrasher Books)

<p>Columbia, South Carolina. 1970 first edition. University of South Carolina. Hardcover octavo. Selected and Edited and with an introduction by Frank Durham. 384p. Near Fine in Good plus dj (one tiny chip and 2 tiny closed tears on dj.) No owner marks.</p>

Collected Short Stories of Julia Peterkin.

Univ of South Carolina Pr

Scarlet Sister Mary

Cherokee Pub

Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the African American experience. Rejecting the prevailing sentimental stereotypes of her times, she portrayed her black characters with sympathy and understanding, endowing them with the full dimensions of human consciousness. In these novels and stories, she tapped the richness of rural southern black culture and oral traditions to capture the conflicting realities in an African American community and to reveal a grace and courage worthy of black pride.

Black April

Classics

Amereon Ltd

Norman Berg

Classic Wisdom Reprint

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