Pauline Hopkins and the American dream : an African American writer's (re)visionary gospel of success / Alisha R. Knight.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knight, Alisha R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

African American women authors--Intellectual life.

African American women authors.

Hopkins, Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth)--Criticism and interpretation.

Hopkins, Pauline E.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins was perhaps the most prolific black female writer of her time. Between 1900 and 1904, writing mainly for Colored American Magazine, she published four novels, at least seven short stories, and numerous articles that often addressed the injustices and challenges facing African Americans in post-Civil War America. In Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream, Alisha Knight provides the first full-length critical analysis of Hopkins's work. Scholars have frequently situated Hopkins within the domestic, sentimental tradition of nineteenth-ce

Contents:

"To aid in everyway possible in uplifting the colored people of America": Hopkins's definition of African American success

Furnace blasts for the tuskegee wizard and the talented tenth: Hopkins and her contemporary self-made men

"Mammon leads them on": Hopkins's critique of the gospel of success

"In the lives of these women are seen signs of progress": Hopkins's race woman and the gospel of success

Conclusion: "Let the good work go on".

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613528940

9781572338890

157233889X

9781280125089

128012508X

OCLC:

780445267