Find a Grave, Find a Grave-ID 7390881, besøkt 9. oktober 2017[Hentet fra Wikidata]
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Elizabeth Robeson (2013). «Life out of Darkness: The Recovery of Julia Peterkin, Forgotten Pulitzer Prize Winner». www.readex.com. Readex. Besøkt 14. juli 2023. «In the spring of 1904, Peterkin’s surgeon father delivered her son, then promptly sterilized her—with her husband’s consent. Peterkin refers often, albeit obliquely, to her life-long bitterness as “my utter defeat,” while a self-loathing is evident in her aggrieved “intellectual, barren” condition. Her psychic pain is represented fictionally by depictions of orphans, women dying in childbirth, lacerations, and disfigured or dead babies. Her favorite Bible verse proclaims, “I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.” Peterkin survived her grief and years of invalidism through the soothing ministrations of Lavinia Berry, a former slave woman who prophetically counseled, “Don’t shet up tings/Too tight in you’ heart.” Berry transformed Peterkin’s life by drawing her into the self-contained world of Lang Syne’s quarters whose people, over time, became the loving family she had never known. Peterkin’s oeuvre—five books and works of short fiction—is rich on myriad levels—as folklore and speech documentary, as catalogue of residual African magic and religious beliefs—but most intriguingly, as autobiography embedded in the lives of her characters who, in turn, were inspired by the residents of Lang Syne.»
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Social Networks and Archival Context, SNAC Ark-ID w6m90bmq, besøkt 9. oktober 2017[Hentet fra Wikidata]
