Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution

by Lois Brown
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution

by Lois Brown

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Overview

Born into an educated free black family in Portland, Maine, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) was a pioneering playwright, journalist, novelist, feminist, and public intellectual, best known for her 1900 novel Contending Forces: A Romance of Negro Life North and South. In this critical biography, Lois Brown documents for the first time Hopkins's early family life and her ancestral connections to eighteenth-century New England, the African slave trade, and twentieth-century race activism in the North.

Brown includes detailed descriptions of Hopkins's earliest known performances as a singer and actress; textual analysis of her major and minor literary works; information about her most influential mentors, colleagues, and professional affiliations; and details of her battles with Booker T. Washington, which ultimately led to her professional demise as a journalist.

Richly grounded in archival sources, Brown's work offers a definitive study that clarifies a number of inconsistencies in earlier writing about Hopkins. Brown re-creates the life of a remarkable woman in the context of her times, revealing Hopkins as the descendant of a family comprising many distinguished individuals, an active participant and supporter of the arts, a woman of stature among professional peers and clubwomen, and a gracious and outspoken crusader for African American rights.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781469606569
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 07/01/2012
Series: Gender and American Culture
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 704
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

Lois Brown is associate professor of English and director of the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts at Mount Holyoke College. She is editor of Memoir of James Jackson, The Obedient Scholar Who Died in Boston, October 31, 1833, Aged Six Years and Eleven Months by His Teacher, Miss Susan Paul.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction     1
Black Daughter, Black History     7
Patriarchal Facts and Fictions     33
The Creation of a Boston Family     46
Progressive Arts and the Public Sphere     70
Dramatic Freedom: The Slaves' Escape; or, The Underground Railroad     108
Spectacular Matters: "Boston's Favorite Colored Soprano" and Entertainment Culture in New England     139
Literary Advocacy: Women's Work, Race Activism, and Lynching     161
For Humanity: The Public Work of Contending Forces     190
Contending Forces as Ancestral Narrative     220
Cooperative Enterprises     253
(Wo)Manly Testimony: The Colored American Magazine and Public History     284
Love, Loss, and the Reconstitution of Paradise: Hagar's Daughter and the Work of Mystery     318
"Boyish Hopes" and the Politics of Brotherhood: Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest     366
The Souls and Spirits of Black Folk: Pan-Africanism and Racial Recovery in Of One Blood and Other Writings     386
Witness to the Truth: The Public and Private Demise of the Colored American Magazine     407
The Colored American Magazine in New York City     442
New Alliances: Pauline Hopkins and the Voice of the Negro     459
Well Known as a Race Writer: Pauline Hopkins as Public Intellectual     489
The New Era Magazine and a "Singlewoman of Boston"     502
Cambridge Days     526
Speeches     537
Letters     542
Review of Contending Forces     558
Notes     563
Bibliography     631
Index     665

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Lois Brown's biography of Pauline Hopkins is a truly astonishing piece of scholarship. The research is prodigious, the material truly compelling, the writing clear and articulate. Brown's approach to Hopkins's oeuvre through the lens of family genealogy and ancestral legacy allows for a seamless interweaving of life and letters which works amazingly well. Hers will stand as the definitive Hopkins biography for decades to come.—Carla L. Peterson, University of Maryland

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