Pauline E. Hopkins
Subtitle: a literary biography
By: Hanna Wallinger.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Hopkins, Pauline E.; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; African American women -- Intellectual life.; Women and literature -- United States.; African American authors -- Biography.; African Americans in literature.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Virtually unknown for the better part of the twentieth century, Pauline E. Hopkins (1859-1930) is one of the most interesting rediscoveries of recent African American literary history. This is the first study devoted exclusively to Hopkins's life and her influential career as an editor, political writer, social critic, pioneering playwright, biographer, and fiction writer. Hanna Wallinger's discoveries break much new ground, especially regarding Hopkins's relationship with such notable men and women as Booker T. Washington and Anna Julia Cooper, her position in Boston's black women's club movement, her work with the Boston-based Colored American Magazine, and her concepts of race, gender, and class."

"Drawing on recently discovered letters, Wallinger sheds new light on the relationship between Hopkins and Booker T. Washington, particularly the acrimony surrounding Hopkins's departure from the Colored American Magazine. She discusses Hopkins's pseudonymous writings in addition to those written under the known alias Sarah A. Allen. Wallinger interprets Hopkins's play Peculiar Sam, her now famous novels (Contending Forces, Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood), and the short stories, which have so far received little critical attention. This study also contains the little-known but important text A Primer of Facts.

Republished here for the first time, it establishes Hopkins as an early advocate of black nationalism and one of the few women writers who joined the discourse on this topic."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Background and beginnings; title: Performances and Peculiar Sam; title: The Colored American magazine; title: The use of pseudonyms; title: Booker T. Washington and famous men; title: The Black woman's era; title: The voices of the dark races; title: The values of race literature; title: Contending forces of the slave past; title: Hagar's beautiful daughters; title: Winona, manhood, and heroism; title: Of one blood and the future African American; title: Folk characters and dialect writing; title: Short stories in the Colored American magazine; title: On the platform with prominent speakers; title: The New era magazine; title: The late years.