Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins fut une auteure afro-américaine significative qui s'est imposée comme une pionnière du roman. Dans son œuvre, elle a magistralement entrelacé des éléments romantiques avec une exploration profonde des thèmes sociaux et raciaux, ouvrant la voie aux générations futures. Ses écrits se caractérisent non seulement par leur qualité littéraire, mais aussi par un examen courageux des problèmes sociétaux contemporains. L'influence de W. E. B. Du Bois est manifeste dans son travail, ajoutant une autre couche de profondeur intellectuelle et d'importance historique à ses textes.
A lost worlds thriller written in 1902 by the pioneering black writer of black fiction. The story of Reuel is fuelled by love, betrayal and a heavy undertow of the supernatural; an impulsive medical student he travels from Boston to Ethiopia, discovers a hidden city, ancient treasure and his own heritage. New edition with a new introduction.
(Including Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood)
First published in May 1900, the Colored American Magazine provided a pioneering forum for black literary talent previously stifled by lack of encouragement and opportunity. Not only a prolific writer for the journal, Pauline Hopkins also served as one of its powerful editorial forces. This volume of her magazine novels, which appeared serially in the journal between March 1901 and November 1903, reveals Hopkins' commitment to fiction as a vehicle for social change. She weaves important political themes into the narrative formulas of nineteenth-century dime-store novels and story papers, which emphasize suspense, action, complex plotting, multiple and false identities, and the use of disguise. Offering both instruction and entertainment, Hopkins' novels also expose the limitations of popular American narrative forms when telling the stories of black characters.