Description
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.Author: Joann Pavletich
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 12/15/2022
Pages: 290
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d
ISBN13: 9780820363134
ISBN10: 0820363138
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American | African American & Black
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | General
About the Author
JOANN PAVLETICH is professor emerita at the University of Houston-Downtown. Her most recent publications include "'...we are going to take that right' Power and Plagiarism in Pauline Hopkins's Winona" in the College Language Association Journal and "Pauline Hopkins and the Death of the Tragic Mulatta" in Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters. She lives in Houston, Texas.