Bright Skin
A Novel
Title Details
Pages: 360
Trim size: 5.120in x 7.500in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 02/01/1998
ISBN: 9-780-8203-1954-4
List Price: $34.95
Bright Skin
A Novel
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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.
Bright Skin is an attractively written story . . . sympathetic and unsensational in style.
—Times Literary Supplement