Pauline Hopkins and the American dream [[electronic resource] ] : an African American writer's (re)visionary gospel of success / / Alisha R. Knight
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Knight Alisha R
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Pauline Hopkins and the American dream [[electronic resource] ] : an African American writer's (re)visionary gospel of success / / Alisha R. Knight
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| Pubblicazione: | Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (145 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 818/.409 |
| Soggetto topico: | American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism |
| American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism | |
| African American women authors - Intellectual life | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | "To aid in everyway possible in uplifting the colored people of America": Hopkins's definition of African American success -- Furnace blasts for the tuskegee wizard and the talented tenth: Hopkins and her contemporary self-made men -- "Mammon leads them on": Hopkins's critique of the gospel of success -- "In the lives of these women are seen signs of progress": Hopkins's race woman and the gospel of success -- Conclusion: "Let the good work go on". |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins was perhaps the most prolific black female writer of her time. Between 1900 and 1904, writing mainly for Colored American Magazine, she published four novels, at least seven short stories, and numerous articles that often addressed the injustices and challenges facing African Americans in post-Civil War America. In Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream, Alisha Knight provides the first full-length critical analysis of Hopkins's work. Scholars have frequently situated Hopkins within the domestic, sentimental tradition of nineteenth-ce |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Pauline Hopkins and the American dream |
| ISBN: | 9786613528940 |
| 1-57233-889-X | |
| 1-280-12508-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910462232703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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