Pauline Hopkins and the American dream
Subtitle: an African American writer's (re)visionary gospel of success
By: Alisha R. Knight
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781572338524
Subjects: Women authors; African American authors; Intellectual life; American fiction; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; African American women authors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "To aid in everyway possible in uplifting the colored people of America": Hopkins's definition of African American success; title: Furnace blasts for the tuskegee wizard and the talented tenth: Hopkins and her contemporary self-made men; title: "Mammon leads them on": Hopkins's critique of the gospel of success; title: "In the lives of these women are seen signs of progress": Hopkins's race woman and the gospel of success; title: Conclusion: "Let the good work go on".