Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

Hopkins, Pauline E.

ISBN 10: 0195067851 / ISBN 13: 9780195067859

Published by Oxford University Press, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195067851
• ISBN 13: 9780195067859
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

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. In its pages we encounter noble heroes and virtuous heroines, exotic settings, unsavory villains, melodramatic scenes, and a star-crossed love affair. Both an extraordinarily detailed examination of black life in nineteenth-century America and a richly textured and engrossing piece of fiction, Contending Forces remains one of the most important works produced by an African-American before World War I.

About the Author

Richard Yarborough is at University of California, Los Angeles.