num_pages: 376
description: 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.
language: English
title: Scarlet Sister Mary
titlecomplete: Scarlet Sister Mary
genres: Classics, Race, Fiction, The United States Of America, African American, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 1158
awards: awardedAt: -1293811200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Novel
publisher: University of Georgia Press