Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South / Edition 1

by Pauline E. Hopkins, Richard Yarborough

Overview

The best-known work of a 19th century American black novelist, this book uses the conventions of the sentimental novel with the goal of effecting social change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195067859
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/09/1991
Series:	The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Gwendolyn Brooks, Pulitzer Prize­winning Poet Laureate of Illinois, was recently elected to the National Insti­tute of Arts and Letters. She lives in Chicago.

Editorial Reviews

"A gift to the profession (and to our students) to have the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women's Writers in affordable paperback."—Janet Gabler-Hover, Georgia State Univ.

"Brilliant...her masterwork."—Eric J. Sundquist in The New York Times Book Review

"Terrific romance!"—Leonard Cassuto, Fordham University, Lincoln Center

"Fits into my course wonderfully."—Noelle Arrangoiz, University of Denver

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