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Green Thursday: Stories
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."
Book Details
- Publisher: University of Georgia Press
- Publish Date: Feb 1st, 1998
- Pages: 232
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.52in - 5.18in - 0.52in - 0.50lb
- EAN: 9780820319551
- Categories: • Literary
About the Author
Peterkin, Julia: - 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.
Joyner, Charles: - CHARLES JOYNER, author of Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community, is Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at the University of South Carolina, Coastal College.
Praise for this book
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