Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South
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In Contending Forces (1900), her best-known novel and her only work of fiction published in book form during her lifetime, Pauline Hopkins uses the conventions of the sentimental romance as she seeks to encourage social change. In its pages we encounter noble heroes and virtuous heroines, exotic settings, unsavory villains, melodramatic scenes, and a star-crossed love affair. Both an extraordinarily detailed examination of black life in nineteenth-century...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0195067851
ISBN13:9780195067859
Release Date:May 1991
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:464 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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