Can anything beat white? [electronic resource] : a Black family's letters / [edited by] Elisabeth Petry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Petry, Elisabeth.

Series:

Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Novelists, American--20th century--Family relationships.

Novelists, American.

African American novelists--Family relationships.

African American novelists.

African American families--History--Sources.

African American families.

African Americans--Correspondence.

African Americans.

Petry, Ann, 1908-1997--Family.

Petry, Ann.

James family--Correspondence.

James family.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ann Petry (1908-1997) achieved prominence during a period in which few black women were published with regularity in America. Her novels Country Place (1947) and The Narrows (1988), along with various short stories and nonfiction, poignantly described the struggles and triumphs of middle-class blacks living in primarily white communities. Petry's ancestors, the James family, served as in-spiration for much of her fiction. This collection of more than four hundred family letters, edited by the daughter of Ann Petry, is an engaging portrait of black family life from the 1890's to the early twenti

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Chapter 1. Surviving the Patterrollers; Chapter 2. The Surrogate Mother; Chapter 3. The Wanderer; Chapter 4. Consumed by Life; Chapter 5. Getting Along Swimmingly; Chapter 6. Setting the Stage; Chapter 7. Writing for Posterity from Hawaii; Chapter 8. Challenges at Atlanta University; Chapter 9. A Lark a Flyin'; Chapter 10. Achieving a Dream; Postscript

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-282-91736-6

9786612917363

1-61703-068-6

OCLC:

693762035