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Green Thursday / stories by Julia Peterkin ; foreword by Charles Joyner.
Van Pelt Library PS3531.E77 G74 1998
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LIBRA PS3531.E77 G74 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peterkin, Julia, 1880-1961.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Carolina--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- South Carolina.
- Manners and customs.
- Plantation life--South Carolina--Fiction.
- Plantation life.
- African Americans--South Carolina--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xlvii, 9-188 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- 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".
- Contents:
- Ashes.
- Green Thursday.
- Missie.
- Meeting.
- Mount Pleasant.
- Finding peace.
- The red rooster.
- Teaching Jim.
- Cat fish.
- Son.
- A Sunday.
- Plum-blossoms.
- Notes:
- "Brown thrasher books."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxvii-xlvii).
- ISBN:
- 0820319554
- OCLC:
- 37141151
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