Research Catalog

Title

Yours for humanity : new essays on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins / edited by JoAnn Pavletich.

Publication

• Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

Pavletich, JoAnn, 1954-

Description

xviii, 270 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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."--

Alternative Title

New essays on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Subject

• Hopkins, Pauline E. > Criticism and interpretation
• Hopkins, Pauline E
• African Americans in literature
• Race in literature
• African Americans > History and criticism
• Criticism and interpretation
• African Americans

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Essays.
• Literary criticism.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword. Imagining Pauline Hopkins across time / John Cullen Gruesser -- Introduction. The expansive vision of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins / JoAnn Pavletich -- Texts and contexts. "Strun 'em up fer a eggsample to the res'": lynch law's rhetoric of exemplarity and Pauline E. Hopkins's contending forces / John Cyril Barton -- Pauline E. Hopkins's editorial rise and radical racial uplift in fiction publishing at the Colored American Magazine / Elizabeth J. Cali -- Literary and legal genres in Pauline Hopkins's Hagar's daughter: black testimony, the production of truth, and the regulation of property / Valerie Sirenko -- Intertexts. Intertextual transformations: Pauline E. Hopkins and Alice French [Octave Thanet] / Hanna Wallinger -- Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: nineteenth-century America's cultural stenographer / Karin L. Hooks -- "It's this cursed slavery that's to blame": nineteenth-century discourse on slavery and Pauline Hopkins's historiographic counternarratives / Sabine Isabell Engwer -- "Gazing hopelessly into the future": utopia and the racial politics of genre in Of one blood; or, The hidden self / Courtney L. Novosat -- Stolen words: literature as a tool for revolution / Colleen C. O'Brien -- Textual practices. "Coming unalone": reflections on teaching Pauline Hopkins / Geoffrey Sanborn -- The serial pleasures of reading Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins / Cherene Sherrard-Johnson -- Afterword. "I sing of the wrongs of a race": Pauline E. Hopkins as editor and author / Edlie L. Wong.

Call Number

Sc E 23-363

ISBN

• 9780820363141
• 0820363146
• 9780820363134
• 0820363138
• 9780820363158 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022025156

OCLC

1336989310

Title

Yours for humanity : new essays on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins / edited by JoAnn Pavletich.

Publisher

Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Pavletich, JoAnn, 1954- editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-363