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Black American Prose Writers: Before the Harlem Renaissance ("Pauline E. Hopkins, 1859-1930" begins on p. 103) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 159 pgs.

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Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist (Chap. 6 "'Of What Use Is Fiction?' Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins" and Chap. 7 "'All the Fire and Romance': The Magazine Fiction of Pauline Hopkins") » Read Now
by Hazel V. Carby. 223 pgs.

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A cultural history of the work of nineteenth-century black women writers, this volume traces the emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural reconstruction, examining the ways in which dominant sexual ideologies influenced the literary conventions of women's fiction, and reassessing...
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A cultural history of the work of nineteenth-century black women writers, this volume traces the emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural reconstruction, examining the ways in which dominant sexual ideologies influenced the literary conventions of women's fiction, and reassessing the uses of fiction in American culture. Carby revises the history of the period of Jim Crow and Booker T. Washington, depicting a time of intense cultural and political activity by such black women writers as Ida B. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Pauline Hopkins.
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Regions of Identity: The Construction of America in Women's Fiction, 1885-1914 (Chap. 3 "Slavery, Sexuality, and Genre: Pauline E. Hopkins's Negotiations of (African) American Womanhood") » Read Now
by Kate McCullough. 366 pgs.

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Examining turn-of-the-centry American women's fiction, the author argues that this writing played a crucial role in the production of a national fantasy of a unified American identity in the face of racial, regional, ethnic and sexual divisions.
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"Everything We Hoped She'd Be": Contending Forces in Hopkins Scholarship, in African American Review » Read Now
by Jill Bergman. 18 pgs.

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Eugenics and the Fiction of Pauline Hopkins, in ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly) » Read Now
by John Nickel. 15 pgs.

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...Eugenics and the Fiction of Pauline Hopkins by John Nickel...African-American character in Pauline Hopkins first of four novels, Con tending...The Mulatto" (231-36) and "...
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The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness (Chap. 3 "'Corporeal Suspicion': The Missing Crimes of Neoabolitionist Rape Culture in Pauline Hopkins's Detective Histories") » Read Now
by Stephen P. Knadler. 249 pgs.

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Stephen P. Knadler is an assistant professor of English at Spelman College.
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Separate Spheres No More: Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930 (Chap. 9 "Narratives of Domestic Imperialism: The African-American Home in the Colored American Magazine and the Novels of Pauline Hopkins, 1900-1903") » Read Now
by Monika M. Elbert. 310 pgs.

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Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both...
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Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both historically and in the context of classroom teaching.
While some of the essays pair up female and male authors who write in a similar style or with similar concerns, others address social issues shared by both men and women, including class tensions, economic problems, and the Civil War experience. Rather than privileging particular genres or certain well-known writers, the contributors examine writings ranging from novels and poetry to autobiography, utopian fiction, and essays. And they consider familiar figures like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, and Ralph Waldo Emerson alongside such lesser-known writers as Melusina Fay Peirce, Susie King Taylor, and Mary Gove Nichols.
Each essay revises the binary notions that have been ascribed to males and females, such as public and private, rational and intuitive, political and domestic, violent and passive. Although they do not deny the existence of separate spheres, the contributors show the boundary between them to be much more blurred than has been assumed until now.
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Utopianism and Radicalism in a Reforming America, 1888-1918 (Chap. 3 "Racial Boundaries and 'Hidden' African-American Utopias: Griggs's Imperium in Imperio and Hopkins's 'Of One Blood'") » Read Now
by Francis Robert Shor. 224 pgs.

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Utopianism and radicalism achieve greater prominence when economic and social crises render the dominant moral and political universe open to question. The essays in this book examine how utopianism and radicalism informed the literary expressions, political discourse, communal experiments, and...
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Utopianism and radicalism achieve greater prominence when economic and social crises render the dominant moral and political universe open to question. The essays in this book examine how utopianism and radicalism informed the literary expressions, political discourse, communal experiments, and cultural projects in the U.S. from 1888 to 1918. In particular, these essays track how socialism, anarchism, syndicalism, feminism, and black nationalism contested the ideological terrain during a period when reform ideas and movements were beginning to reshape that terrain. The degree to which utopianism and radicalism were involved in that reformulation, either in its expanse or its constraint, is of prime interest throughout the book. Teachers and students interested in utopian studies, American studies, and the cultural/intellectual history of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era will find this book highly useful.
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Loss: The Politics of Mourning ("Passing Shadows: Melancholic Nationality and Black Critical Publicity in Pauline E. Hopkins's Of One Blood" begins on p. 148) » Read Now
by David L. Eng, David Kazanjian. 488 pgs.

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"If catastrophe is not representable according to the narrative explanations which would 'make sense' of history, then making sense of ourselves and charting the future are not impossible. But we are, as it were, marked for life, and that mark is insuperable, irrecoverable. It becomes the condition...
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"If catastrophe is not representable according to the narrative explanations which would 'make sense' of history, then making sense of ourselves and charting the future are not impossible. But we are, as it were, marked for life, and that mark is insuperable, irrecoverable. It becomes the condition by which life is risked, by which the question of whether one can move, and with whom, and in what way is framed and incited by the irreversibility of loss itself."--Judith Butler, from the "Afterword
""Loss is a wonderful volume: powerful and important, deeply moving and intellectually challenging at the same time, ethical and not moralistic. It is one of those rare collections that work as a multifaceted whole to map new areas for inquiry and pose new questions. I found myself educated and provoked by the experience of participating in an ongoing dialogue."--Amy Kaplan, author of "The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture
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Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood, Africa, and the "Darwinist Trap," in African American Review » Read Now
by Martin Japtok. 13 pgs.

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...Pauline Hopkinss Of One Blood, Africa, and the "Darwinist...African characters" (Gruesser 77), Pauline Hopkinss Of One Blood attempts to counter turn-of-the...Family, and...
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Not Black and/or White: Reading Racial Difference in Heliodorus's Ethiopica and Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood, in African American Review » Read Now
by Maria Harris. 17 pgs.

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...in Heliodoruss Ethiopica and Pauline Hopkinss Of One Blood by Maria...intermarriage, and passing was Pauline Hopkins (Carby 162). A remarkable woman...Neighborhood in the...
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Whose Will Be Done?: Self-Determination in Pauline Hopkins's Hagar's Daughter, in African American Review » Read Now
by Susan Hays Bussey. 14 pgs.

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"So Strangely Interwoven": The Property of Inheritance, Race, and Sexual Morality in Pauline E. Hopkins's Contending Forces, in African American Review » Read Now
by Julie Cary Nerad. 19 pgs.

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...437), she also argues that "Pauline Hopkins consistently proves herself...progress and achieving results" ("Pauline Hopkins" 59). See also n1. Works Cited...Reconstructing...
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Black Imagination and the Middle Passage (Chap. 16 "Voyage into the Heart of Africa: Pauline Hopkins and Of One Blood") » Read Now
by Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Carl Pedersen. 320 pgs.

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This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance and music it elicited, both on the liminal transatlantic journey and on the continent and eventual return. As a whole this collection establishes a broad...
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This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance and music it elicited, both on the liminal transatlantic journey and on the continent and eventual return. As a whole this collection establishes a broad topographical and temporal context for the Passage that extends from the interior of Africa across the Atlantic and to the interior of the Americas, and from the time of the Middle Passage to the present day. A collective narrative of itinerant cultural consciousness as represented in histories, myth and arts, these contributions reconceptualize the meaning of the Middle Passage for African American history and fiction.
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Race, Rape, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912 (Chap. Three "Black Women and White Terrorism: Ida B. Wells, David Bryant Fulton, Pauline E. Hopkins, and the Politics of Representation") » Read Now
by Sandra Gunning. 198 pgs.

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In the late nineteenth century, the stereotype of the black male as sexual beast functioned for white supremacists as an externalized symbol of social chaos against which all whites would unite for the purpose of national renewal. The emergence of this stereotype in American culture and literature...
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In the late nineteenth century, the stereotype of the black male as sexual beast functioned for white supremacists as an externalized symbol of social chaos against which all whites would unite for the purpose of national renewal. The emergence of this stereotype in American culture and literature during and after Reconstruction was related to the growth of white-on-black violence, as white lynch mobs acted in "defense" of white womanhood, the white family, and white nationalism. In Writing a Red Record Sandra Gunning investigates American literary encounters with the conditions, processes, and consequences of such violence through the representation of not just the black rapist stereotype, but of other crucial stereotypes in mediating moments of white social crisis: "lascivious" black womanhood; avenging white masculinity; and passive white femininity. Gunning argues that these figures together signify the tangle of race and gender representation emerging from turn-of-the-century American literature. The book brings together Charles W. Chestnutt, Kate Chopin, Thomas Dixon, David Bryant Fulton, Pauline Hopkins, Mark Twain, and Ida B. Wells: famous, infamous, or long-neglected figures who produced novels, essays, stories, and pamphlets in the volatile period of the 1890s through the early 1900s, and who contributed to the continual renegotiation and redefinition of the terms and boundaries of a national dialogue on racial violence.
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Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (Chap. 3 "Inverting the Tragic Mulatta Tradition Race and Homosexuality in Pauline E. Hopkins's Fiction") » Read Now
by Siobhan B. Somerville. 260 pgs.

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Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was "invented" as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan B...
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Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was "invented" as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan B. Somerville argues that the emerging understanding of homosexuality depended on the context of the black/white "color line", the dominant system of racial distinction during this period. This book thus critiques and revises tendencies to treat race and sexuality as unrelated categories of analysis, showing instead that race has historically been central to the cultural production of homosexuality.
At about the same time that the 1896 Supreme Court Plessy v. Ferguson decision hardened the racialized boundary between black and white, prominent trials were drawing the public's attention to emerging categories of sexual identity. Somerville argues that these concurrent developments were not merely parallel but in fact,inextricably interrelated and that the discourses of racial and "deviance" were sexual used to reinforce each other's terms. She provides original readings of such texts as Havelock Ellis's late-nineteenth-century work on "sexual inversion", the 1914 film A Florida Enchantment, the novels of Pauline E. Hopkins, James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, and Jean Toomer's fiction and autobiographical writings, including Cane. Through her analyses of these texts and her archival research, Somerville contributes to the growing body of scholarship that focuses on discovering the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality.
Queering the Color Line will have broadappeal across disciplines including African American studies, gay and lesbian studies, literary criticism, cultural studies, cinema studies, and gender studies.
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