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The motherless child in the novels of Pauline Hopkins /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bergman, Jill, 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Hopkins, Pauline E. > (Pauline Elizabeth) > Criticism and interpretation.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Parental deprivation in literature.
Mothers in literature.
Children in literature.
African American women authors > Intellectual life.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the motherless child in the post-reconstruction United States
  • "The blessed relief of tears": maternal redemption in Contending forces
  • Motherlessness in the nation's capital: the national father in Hagar's daughter
  • "Somethin's gwine happen": national warning in Winona
  • Finding mother Africa: of one blood and Hopkins's national vision
  • Coda.