The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins (Including Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood)

by Hopkins, Pauline; Carby, Hazel V.

• ISBN13: 9780195063257
• ISBN10: 0195063252
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-07-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

First published in May 1900, the Colored American Magazine provided a pioneering forum for black literary talent previously stifled by lack of encouragement and opportunity. Not only a prolific writer for the journal, Pauline Hopkins also served as one of its powerful editorial forces. Thisvolume of her magazine novels, which appeared serially in the journal between March 1901 and November 1903, reveals Hopkins' commitment to fiction as a vehicle for social change. She weaves important political themes into the narrative formulas of nineteenth-century dime-store novels and storypapers, which emphasize suspense, action, complex plotting, multiple and false identities, and the use of disguise. Offering both instruction and entertainment, Hopkins' novels also expose the limitations of popular American narrative forms when telling the stories of black characters.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xxix
Hazel V. Carby
Hagar's Daughter. A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice	1	(284)
Winona. A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest	285	(154)
Of One Blood. Or, the Hidden Self	439