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Pauline Hopkins and the American dream

Knight, Alisha R.

Pauline Hopkins and the American dream an African American writer's (re)visionary gospel of success / [electronic resource] : Alisha R. Knight. - 1st ed. - Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (144 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"To aid in everyway possible in uplifting the colored people of America": Hopkins's definition of African American success -- Furnace blasts for the tuskegee wizard and the talented tenth: Hopkins and her contemporary self-made men -- "Mammon leads them on": Hopkins's critique of the gospel of success -- "In the lives of these women are seen signs of progress": Hopkins's race woman and the gospel of success -- Conclusion: "Let the good work go on".

9781572338890 157233889X


Hopkins, Pauline E.--Criticism and interpretation.


African American women authors--Intellectual life.
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PS1999.H4226 / Z73 2012

818/.409