The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins: (Including Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood) (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
Pauline E. Hopkins
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Description for The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins: (Including Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood) (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
Paperback. Series: The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. Num Pages: 672 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 117 x 43. Weight in Grams: 505.
First published in May 1900, the Colored American Magazine provided a pioneering forum for black literary talent previously stifled by lack of encouragement and opportunity. Not only a prolific writer for the journal, Pauline Hopkins also served as one of its powerful editorial forces. This volume of her magazine novels, which appeared serially in the journal between March 1901 and November 1903, reveals Hopkins' commitment to fiction as a vehicle for social change. She weaves important political themes into the narrative formulas of nineteenth-century dime-store novels and story papers, which emphasize suspense, action, complex plotting, multiple and false identities, and ... Read more
First published in May 1900, the Colored American Magazine provided a pioneering forum for black literary talent previously stifled by lack of encouragement and opportunity. Not only a prolific writer for the journal, Pauline Hopkins also served as one of its powerful editorial forces. This volume of her magazine novels, which appeared serially in the journal between March 1901 and November 1903, reveals Hopkins' commitment to fiction as a vehicle for social change. She weaves important political themes into the narrative formulas of nineteenth-century dime-store novels and story papers, which emphasize suspense, action, complex plotting, multiple and false identities, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Series
The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195063257
SKU
V9780195063257
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Reviews for The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins: (Including Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood) (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
Brilliant....It is not hard to imagine that, once her fiction is given the attention it deserves, Hopkins could replace Chestnutt as the foremost black novelist of the period.
Eric J. Sundquist in The New York Times Book Review
The three novels published in the Schomburg Library for the first time since their appearance in The Colored American Magazine ... Read more
Eric J. Sundquist in The New York Times Book Review
The three novels published in the Schomburg Library for the first time since their appearance in The Colored American Magazine ... Read more