Green Thursday: Stories

by Julia Peterkin, Charles Joyner

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780820319551
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Publication date:	02/01/1998
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	232
Sales rank:	584,854
Product dimensions:	5.12(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

JULIA PETERKIN (1880–1961) was the author of three novels, a collection of short stories, and, with photographer Doris Ulmann, a nonfiction collection of essays entitled Roll, Jordan, Roll. She was the first South Carolinian to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

JULIA PETERKIN (1880–1961) was the author of three novels, a collection of short stories, and, with photographer Doris Ulmann, a nonfiction collection of essays entitled Roll, Jordan, Roll. She was the first South Carolinian to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

Editorial Reviews

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

"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

From the Publisher

Pulitzer Prize winner Peterkin was a pioneer in writing candidly, yet unsentimentally, about black women, including their sensuality. Debuting in 1924 and 1928, respectively, these two titles offer a collection of short stories and a novel.

Library Journal