Yours for Humanity
New Essays on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
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Pages: 290
Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in
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Pub Date: 12/15/2022
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American
Yours for Humanity
New Essays on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
The first collection of essays on Pauline Hopkins since The Unruly Voice in 1996
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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859–1930), African American novelist, editor, journalist, playwright, historian, and public intellectual, used fiction to explore and intervene in the social, racial, and political challenges of her era. Her particular form of cultural activism was groundbreaking for its time and continues to influence and inspire authors and scholars today. This collection of essays constitutes a new phase in the full historical and literary recovery of her work.
JoAnn Pavletich argues that considered from the broadest of perspectives, Hopkins’s life work occupies itself with the critique and creation of epistemologies that control racialized knowledge and experience. Whether in representations of a critical contemporary problem such as lynching, imperialism, or pan-African unity or in representations of African American women’s voices, Hopkins’s texts create new knowledge and new frames for understanding it. The essays in this collection engage this knowledge, articulating nuanced understandings of Hopkins’s era and her innovative writing practices, opening new doors for the next generation of Hopkins scholarship. With contributions from well-established Hopkins scholars such as John Gruesser (editor of The Unruly Voice) and Hanna Wallinger (author of Pauline E. Hopkins: A Literary Biography), the collection also includes important new scholars on Hopkins such as Elizabeth Cali, Edlie Wong, and others.
—Sandra Gunning, author of Race, Rape, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890–1912
—Anna Pochmara, author of The Nadir and the Zenith
John Cyril Barton
Elizabeth Cali
Sabine Engwer
Karin L. Hooks
Courtney Novosat
Colleen O'Brien
Geoffrey Sanborn
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Valerie Sirenko
Hanna Wallinger
Edlie L. Wong