Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins : Black Daughter of the Revolution

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Lois.

Series:

Gender & American culture Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American journalists.

African American journalists--Biography.

African American women--Intellectual life.

African American women authors.

African American women authors--Biography.

African Americans--History--1877-1964.

African Americans in literature.

Authors, American--19th century.

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

Authors, American--20th century.

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

Hopkins, Pauline E.

Hopkins, Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth).

Racism--United States--History--20th century.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

Authors, American--Intellectual life--19th century--United States--Biography.

Authors, American.

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

African American women authors--History--1877-1964--Biography.

African American journalists--20th Century--Biography.

African American women.

African Americans.

Racism.

United States.

Local Subjects:

African American journalists.

African American journalists--Biography.

African American women--Intellectual life.

African American women authors.

African American women authors--Biography.

African Americans--History--1877-1964.

African Americans in literature.

Authors, American--19th century.

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

Authors, American--20th century.

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

Hopkins, Pauline E.

Hopkins, Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth).

Racism--United States--History--20th century.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (705 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Born into an educated free black family in Portland, Maine, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) was a pioneering playwright, journalist, novelist, feminist, and public intellectual, best known for her 1900 novel Contending Forces: A Romance of Negro Life North and South. In this critical biography, Lois Brown documents for the first time Hopkins's early family life and her ancestral connections to eighteenth-century New England, the African slave trade, and twentieth-century race activism in the North. Brown includes detailed descriptions of Hopkins's earliest known performanc

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Black Daughter, Black History; 2. Patriarchal Facts and Fictions; 3. The Creation of a Boston Family; 4. Progressive Arts and the Public Sphere; 5. Dramatic Freedom: The Slaves' Escape; or,The Underground Railroad; 6. Spectacular Matters: "Boston's Favorite Colored Soprano" and Entertainment Culture in New England; 7. Literary Advocacy: Women's Work, Race Activism, and Lynching; 8. For Humanity: The Public Work of Contending Forces; 9. Contending Forces as Ancestral Narrative; 10. Cooperative Enterprises

11. (Wo)Manly Testimony: The Colored American Magazine and Public History12. Love, Loss, and the Reconstitution of Paradise: Hagar's Daughter and the Work of Mystery; 13. "Boyish Hopes" and the Politics of Brotherhood: Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest; 14. The Souls and Spirits of Black Folk: Pan-Africanism and Racial Recovery in Of One Blood and Other Writings; 15. Witness to the Truth: The Public and Private Demise of the Colored American Magazine; 16. The Colored American Magazine in New York City; 17. New Alliances: Pauline Hopkins and the Voice of the Negro

18. Well Known as a Race Writer: Pauline Hopkins as Public Intellectual19. The New Era Magazine and a "Singlewoman of Boston"; 20. Cambridge Days; Appendix 1. Speeches; Appendix 2. Letters; Appendix 3. Review of Contending Forces; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9798890878267

9781469606569

1469606569

OCLC:

823170582