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Contending Forces
Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
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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 America and a richly textured and engrossing piece of fiction, Contending Forces remains one of the most important works producedby an African-American before World War I.
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I‘m not a story part of the novel yet and but the foreword is 🔥.
TIL: Phyllis Wheatley was the first Black person published in English in 1773. She “was the only Black personal to have published a book of imaginative literature in English” for 56 years. #blackgirlmagic