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The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins

Jill Bergman

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Description:Well known in her day as a singer, playwright, novelist, and editor of the Colored American Magazine, Pauline Hopkins (1859 1930) has been the subject of considerable scholarly attention over the last twenty years. Nevertheless, her novels have not received their critical due. The Motherless Child, the first book-length study of Hopkins s major fictions, fills this critical gap, offering a sustained analysis of motherlessness in Contending Forces, Hagar s Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood. Motherlessness appears in all of Hopkins s novels. The motif, Bergman asserts, resonated profoundly for African Americans living with the legacy of abduction from a motherland and familial fragmentation under slavery. In her novels, motherlessness serves as a trope for the national alienation of post-Reconstruction African Americans. The longing and search for a maternal figure, then, represents an effort to reconnect with the absent mother a missing parent and a lost African history and heritage. In Hopkins s oeuvre, the image of the mother of African heritage a source of both identity and persecution becomes a source of power and possibility. Bergman interweaves historical events such as Bleeding Kansas, the execution of John Brown, and the Middle Passage with motherlessness and explores how Hopkins s work engages with other contemporaneous race activists. This illuminating study opens new terrain not only in Hopkins scholarship, but also in the complex interchanges between literary, African American, psychoanalytic, feminist, and postcolonial studies.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins. To get started finding The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Well known in her day as a singer, playwright, novelist, and editor of the Colored American Magazine, Pauline Hopkins (1859 1930) has been the subject of considerable scholarly attention over the last twenty years. Nevertheless, her novels have not received their critical due. The Motherless Child, the first book-length study of Hopkins s major fictions, fills this critical gap, offering a sustained analysis of motherlessness in Contending Forces, Hagar s Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood. Motherlessness appears in all of Hopkins s novels. The motif, Bergman asserts, resonated profoundly for African Americans living with the legacy of abduction from a motherland and familial fragmentation under slavery. In her novels, motherlessness serves as a trope for the national alienation of post-Reconstruction African Americans. The longing and search for a maternal figure, then, represents an effort to reconnect with the absent mother a missing parent and a lost African history and heritage. In Hopkins s oeuvre, the image of the mother of African heritage a source of both identity and persecution becomes a source of power and possibility. Bergman interweaves historical events such as Bleeding Kansas, the execution of John Brown, and the Middle Passage with motherlessness and explores how Hopkins s work engages with other contemporaneous race activists. This illuminating study opens new terrain not only in Hopkins scholarship, but also in the complex interchanges between literary, African American, psychoanalytic, feminist, and postcolonial studies.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins. To get started finding The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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