The motherless child in the novels of Pauline Hopkins /
Bergman, Jill,1963-
Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-191) and index.
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.
Hopkins, Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth)
American fiction
American fiction
African American women authors
Children in literature.
Mothers in literature.
Parental deprivation in literature.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.