Green Thursday
Stories
Title Details
Pages: 232
Trim size: 5.120in x 7.500in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 02/01/1998
ISBN: 9-780-8203-1955-1
List Price: $27.95
Green Thursday
Stories
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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.
Peterkin has showed herself in Green Thursday as a literary artist. . . . Into the mold of the graceful form she has chosen she pours the distillation of a rich, human observation of the secret life of a people who have not yet been understood.
—New York Times
