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The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill
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...
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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; 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
