Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Pauline Hopkins was a Boston novelist and editor of The Colored American Magazine who wrote ambitious serialized fiction celebrating Black history and African American dignity. Contending Forces is her most substantial novel.
Works
- Contending ForcesNovel exploring African American identity, protest, and community organization
- Hagar's DaughterSerial novel of mystery, race, and identity across generations
- WinonaSerial novel following mixed-race woman discovering her heritage and agency
- Of One BloodSerial novel blending mystery, racial identity, and reincarnation themes
- A Primer of Facts Pertaining to the Early Greatness of the African Race