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Peterkin, Julia. Black April

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Peterkin, Julia. Black AprilBobbs Merrill: Indianapolis, 1927. First edition, first issue with 'ducks quacked' on page 17 (Ahearn Collected Books). "An extraordinary novel of Negro life on an isolated plantation" signed by the author on front free endpaper. Black April was "accepted by the critics as being one of the best books ever written about the southern negro" (The Sunday Oregonian). A very good copy, gilt on spine and front cover dulled as usual in very good, first issue

Bobbs Merrill: Indianapolis, 1927.  First edition, first issue with 'ducks quacked' on page 17 (Ahearn Collected Books).  

"An extraordinary novel of Negro life on an isolated plantation" signed by the author on front free endpaper.  Black April was "accepted by the critics as being one of the best books ever written about the southern negro" (The Sunday Oregonian).

A very good copy, gilt on spine and front cover dulled as usual in very good, first issue dust wrapper without Crawford blurb, price intact, extremities of spine a little chipped, one small edge tear to rear.

Peterkin went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1929, the first southern novelist to receive that honor.  A household name for the better part of three decades, "Peterkin’s accomplishment lay in her upending the traditional plantation novel by replacing its gross stereotypes with rural black southerners of complexity, stamina, integrity, and courage, while valorizing the African spiritual inheritance as a transcendent force of cultural regeneration.  Because no Uncle Toms, Aunt Jemimas or Colonels clad in white linen inhabited Peterkin’s fiction (indeed, white characters made rare appearances), and because she dared depict tender love and sex between black people, prickly white southerners viewed her suspiciously, perceiving her work as inflammatory and pornographic.  In a letter to her mentor H.L. Mencken, Peterkin admitted the sting of her own family’s disdain.  Her grown son, she relayed, urged her to write about 'beautiful white men and women, not n-words.'  In a poignant confession of her alienation she tersely wrote, 'No beautiful white people live in my head.'" (Life out of Darkness: The Recovery of Julia Peterkin, Forgotten Pulitzer Prize Winner by Elizabeth Robeson, M.Phil, Columbia University).

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