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The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins /
Well known in her day as a singer, playwright, author, and editor of the Colored American Magazine, Pauline Hopkins (1859-1930) has been the subject of considerable scholarly attention over the last twenty years. Academic review of her many accomplishments, however, largely overlooks Hopkins's...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Well known in her day as a singer, playwright, author, and editor of the Colored American Magazine, Pauline Hopkins (1859-1930) has been the subject of considerable scholarly attention over the last twenty years. Academic review of her many accomplishments, however, largely overlooks Hopkins's contributions as novelist. This work, the first book-length study of Hopkins's major fiction, fills this gap, offering a sustained analysis of motherlessness in Contending Forces, Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood. Motherlessness appears in all of Hopkins's novels. The motif, the author asserts, resonated profoundly for African Americans living with the legacy of abduction from a motherland and familial fragmentation under slavery. In her novels, motherlessness serves as a trope for the national alienation of post-Reconstruction African Americans. The longing and search for a maternal figure, then, represents an effort to reconnect with the absent mother - a missing parent and a lost African history and heritage. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780807147306 |