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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780820323770
ISBN: 0820323772
Label: University of Georgia Press
Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 376
Publication Date: October 10, 1998
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Sales Rank: 616099
Studio: University of Georgia Press
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Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the experience. Rejecting the prevailing sentimental stereotypes of her times, she portrayed her sympathy and understanding, endowing them with the full dimensions of human consciousness, she tapped the richness of rural southern black culture and oral traditions to capture an African American community and to reveal a grace and courage worthy of black pride.
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Totally absorbing, wonderful read about the South Carolina Low Country and it's Gullah people. I loved it.
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This delightful story by Julie Peterkin caught the eyes and surely the hearts of the committee to garner the Pulitzer Prize in 1929. Mary has the misfortune to become besot by July, the biggest rascal in the Quarters. The love-charm that Old Daddy Cudjoe makes for her comes too late to win back July as he drops out of sight with Cinder and is lost from Mary's life for the next twenty years. Mary goes on to be the Venus of the Quarters eventually having nine children by an untold litany of befogged ... Read More
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Written by former plantation mistress Julia Peterkin, Scarlet Sister Mary is a novel of intellect, individualism, coltish word play, tradition and most importantly, respect. The novel, like, Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Color Purple, is written in an old southern vernacular, and it tells the story of Sister Mary or Si May-e, a young and sprightly woman at the novel's start. It is some time after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, and freedon (used loosely, historically speaking), has come for ... Read More
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Scarlet Sister Mary is the story of a free-spirited woman's life in the post-Emancipation South. It is unique in its portrayal of an African-American community as capable of independent existence in the South at that time. The culture of the community is portrayed most interestingly and permeates through the religious, spiritual and even medical undertones of story. While Peterkin tells a poetic tale of an independent, strong, rebellious woman (of whom you grow dearly fond, and cannot help but ... Read More
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