Pauline E. Hopkins: A Literary Biography, Hanna Wallinger

Автор: Brown
Название: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
ISBN: 1469614561 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469614564
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Описание: Born into an educated free black family in Portland, Maine, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) was a pioneering playwright, journalist, novelist, feminist, and public intellectual, best known for her 1900 novel Contending Forces: A Romance of Negro Life North and South. In this critical biography, Lois Brown documents for the first time Hopkins's early family life and her ancestral connections to eighteenth-century New England, the African slave trade, and twentieth-century race activism in the North. Brown includes detailed descriptions of Hopkins's earliest known performances as a singer and actress; textual analysis of her major and minor literary works; information about her most influential mentors, colleagues, and professional affiliations; and details of her battles with Booker T. Washington, which ultimately led to her professional demise as a journalist.Richly grounded in archival sources, Brown's work offers a definitive study that clarifies a number of inconsistencies in earlier writing about Hopkins. Brown re-creates the life of a remarkable woman in the context of her times, revealing Hopkins as the descendant of a family comprising many distinguished individuals, an active participant and supporter of the arts, a woman of stature among professional peers and clubwomen, and a gracious and outspoken crusader for African American rights.

Автор: Alisha Knight
Название: Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream: An African American Writer`s (Re)Visionary Gospel of Success
ISBN: 1572339543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781572339545
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Описание: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins was perhaps the most prolific black female writer of her time. Between 1900 and 1904, writing mainly for <em>Colored American Magazine</em>, she published four novels, at least seven short stories, and numerous articles that often addressed the injustices and challenges facing African Americans in post–Civil War America. In <em>Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream</em>, Alisha Knight provides the first full-length critical analysis of Hopkins’s work.<br><br>Scholars have frequently situated Hopkins within the domestic, sentimental tradition of nineteenth-century women's writing, with some critics observing that aspects of her writing, particularly its emphasis on the self-made man, seem out of place within the domestic tradition. Knight argues that Hopkins used this often-dismissed theme to critique American society's ingrained racism and sexism. In her “Famous Men” and “Famous Women” series for <em>Colored American Magazine</em>, she constructed her own version of the success narrative by offering models of African American self-made men and women. Meanwhile, in her fiction, she depicted heroes who fail to achieve success or must leave the United States to do so.<br><br>Hopkins risked and eventually lost her position at <em>Colored American Magazine</em> by challenging black male leaders, liberal white philanthropists, and white racists—and by conceiving a revolutionary treatment of the American Dream that placed her far ahead of her time. Hopkins is finally getting her due, and this clear-eyed analysis of her work will be a revelation to literary scholars, historians of African American history, and students of women’s studies.

Автор: Knickerbocker Dale
Название: Lingua Cosmica: Science Fiction from Around the World
ISBN: 0252083377 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252083372
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Автор: Canada Mark, Montgomery Nami
Название: Thomas Wolfe Remembered
ISBN: 0817319905 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780817319908
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Описание: Offers a collection of reminiscences captures the private life of a great American writer. This is a rich, multifaceted portrait painted by those who knew Thomas Wolfe (casually or intimately), loved him (or didn`t), and saw, heard, and experienced the literary (and literal) giant.

Автор: Alt, Peter-Andre?,
Название: Franz Kafka, the eternal son :
ISBN: 0810162431 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780810162433
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Описание: Franz Kafka remains one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. His novels, stories, and letters are still regarded today as the epitome of the dark, fascinating, and uncanny, a model of the modernist aesthetic. Peter-André Alt’s landmark biography, Franz Kafka, the Eternal Son, recounts and explores Kafka’s life and literary work throughout the cultural and political upheavals of central Europe.Alt’s biography explores Franz Kafka’s own view of life and writing as a unity that shaped his identity. He locates links and echoes among the author’s work, life, and surroundings, situating him within the traditions of Prague's German literature, modernity, psychoanalysis, and philosophy as well as within its Jewish culture, arts, theater, and intellectual tradition.In this biographical tour de force, Kafka emerges as an observant flaneur and wistful loner, an anxious ascetic, an ecstatic and skeptic, a specialist in terror, and a master of irony. Alt masterfully illuminates Kafka's life not as source material but as a mirror of his literary genius. Readers begin to see Kafka’s unforgettable novels and stories as shards reflecting the life of their creator.

Автор: Atherton Mark
Название: There and Back Again
ISBN: 1780762461 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780762463
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Цена: 47520.00 T
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Описание: Explores the chief influences on J R R Tolkien`s work: his boyhood in the West Midlands; the landscapes and seascapes which shaped his mythologies; his experiences in World War I; his interest in Scandinavian myth; his friendships, especially with the other Oxford-based Inklings; and relevance of his themes, especially ecological themes, today.