Post-Plantation and Post-Hawthorne Poputchik Writing: The Peculiarly American Time and Place of Julia Peterkin’s Scarlet Sister Mary by Anna Linzie

“…American writer Julia Peterkin (1880–1961) represents a downhill trajectory in terms of literary prominence, from the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1929 to obscurity now, almost 100 years later. …”
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“The Map-makers’ Colors”: Maps in Twentieth-Century American Poetry in English by Adele J. Haft

“…As the opening poem of her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection (1955), “The Map” continues to inspire other poets to critique the map’s spatial representation in terms of physical geography and intimacy, time and scale, politics and race, as well as science, art, and exploration. …”
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