The motherless child in the novels of Pauline Hopkins / Jill Bergman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bergman, Jill, 1963-

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.

Children in literature.

Mothers in literature.

Parental deprivation in literature.

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.

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

Hopkins, Pauline E.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Well known in her day as a singer, playwright, author, and editor of the Colored American Magazine, Pauline Hopkins (1859-1930) has been the subject of considerable scholarly attention over the last twenty years. Academic review of her many accomplishments, however, largely overlooks Hopkins's contributions as novelist. The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins, the first book-length study of Hopkins's major fiction, fills this gap, offering a sustained analysis of motherlessness in Contending Forces, Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood. Motherlessness appears in all of Hopk

Contents:

Introduction: the motherless child in the post-reconstruction United States

"The blessed relief of tears": maternal redemption in Contending forces

Motherlessness in the nation's capital: the national father in Hagar's daughter

"Somethin's gwine happen": national warning in Winona

Finding mother Africa: of one blood and Hopkins's national vision

Coda.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8071-4730-3

OCLC:

820123099