The motherless child in the novels of Pauline Hopkins
By: Jill Bergman
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780807147290; 9780807147306; 9780807147313; 9780807147320
Subjects: Mothers in literature; African American authors; Parental deprivation in literature; Intellectual life; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; African American women authors; Children in literature; Women authors; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; American fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the motherless child in the post-reconstruction United States; title: "The blessed relief of tears": maternal redemption in Contending forces; title: Motherlessness in the nation's capital: the national father in Hagar's daughter; title: "Somethin's gwine happen": national warning in Winona; title: Finding mother Africa: of one blood and Hopkins's national vision; title: Coda.