Pauline E. Hopkins : a literary biography / by Hanna Wallinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallinger, Hanna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American authors--Biography.

African American authors.

African American women--Intellectual life.

African American women.

African Americans in literature.

Authors, American--19th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Women and literature--United States.

Women and literature.

Hopkins, Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth).

Hopkins, Pauline E.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Virtually unknown for the better part of the twentieth century, Pauline E. Hopkins (1859-1930) is one of the most interesting rediscoveries of recent African American literary history. This is the first study devoted exclusively to Hopkins's life and her influential career as an editor, political writer, social critic, pioneering playwright, biographer, and fiction writer. Hanna Wallinger's discoveries break much new ground, especially regarding Hopkins's relationship with such notable men and women as Booker T. Washington and Anna Julia Cooper, her position in Boston's black women's club movement, her work with the Boston-based Colored American Magazine, and her concepts of race, gender, and class. Drawing on recently discovered letters, Wallinger sheds new light on the relationship between Hopkins and Booker T. Washington, particularly the acrimony surrounding Hopkins's departure from the Colored American Magazine. She discusses Hopkins's pseudonymous writings in addition to those written under the known alias Sarah A. Allen. Wallinger interprets Hopkins's play Peculiar Sam, her now famous novels ( Contending Forces, Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood ), and the short stories, which have so far received little critical attention. This study also contains the little-known but important text A Primer of Facts. Republished here for the first time, it establishes Hopkins as an early advocate of black nationalism and one of the few women writers who joined this discourse. Hopkins, writes Wallinger, "was on the scene when race consciousness was being defined." This important new study reveals her role at the center of crucial debates about the cultural politics of magazine editing, radical activism, and the early feminist movement.

Contents:

Background and beginnings

Performances and Peculiar Sam

The Colored American magazine

The use of pseudonyms

Booker T. Washington and famous men

The Black woman's era

The voices of the dark races

The values of race literature

Contending forces of the slave past

Hagar's beautiful daughters

Winona, manhood, and heroism

Of one blood and the future African American

Folk characters and dialect writing

Short stories in the Colored American magazine

On the platform with prominent speakers

The New era magazine

The late years.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613625939

9781280596100

1280596104

9780820343945

0820343943

OCLC:

794449222