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Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (Lost American Fiction) - Hardcover
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In 1900, a mere 35 years after the Civil War had ended the practice of one human being owning another, Pauline Hopkins, black and female, published Contending Forces, whose rediscovery here shocks us into recognition that our national literature does indeed contain examples of black awareness and pride.
Like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Pauline Hopkins writes of the injustices suffered by blacks at the hands of whites. But her novel penetrates deeper than Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Nor is the white man the sole devil in Hopkins’s fiction; there are the contending forces: Conservatism, lack of brotherly affiliation, lack of energy for the right and the power of the almighty dollar which deadens men’s hearts to the sufferings of their brothers, and makes them feel that if only they can rise to the top of the ladder may God help the hindermost man, are . . . the contending forces that are dooming this race to despair.”
Very little is known about this remarkable author. She was born in 1859 in Portland, Maine, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1930. In the 1900 1904 period, she was a member of the staff of Colored American Magazine, the most important black magazine of the time. Her novel was published in Boston by The Colored Co-operative Publishing Co.
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In Contending Forces (1900), her best-known novel and her only work of fiction published in book form during her lifetime, Pauline Hopkins uses the conventions of the sentimental romance as she seeks to encourage social change.
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Gwendolyn Brooks, Pulitzer Prizewinning Poet Laureate of Illinois, was recently elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters. She lives in Chicago.
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- PublisherSouthern Illinois University Press
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0809308746
- ISBN 13 9780809308743
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages411
- EditorBruccoli Professor Matthew J.
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CONTENDING FORCES: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South.
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Condition: FINE. First thus. Originally published in 1899 by the Colored Co-operative Publishing Company, Boston, this was one of the first novels to be published in the US by an African American woman writer, a novel which deals realistically with the injustices, including lynching and rape, still so common 35 years after the end of the Civil War. Now reissued as a title in The Lost American Fiction series edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Includes a new afterward by Gwendolyn Brooks. Illustrated by R. Emmett Owen. 412 pp plus a list of the titles in this series. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped). Seller Inventory # 86770
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Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (Lost American Fiction)
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