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Contending Forces

Contending Forces

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Number of Chapters: 23

Length: 9 hours and 01 minute

Language: English

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, despite an impressive record of productivity and creativity as a novelist, playwright, short fiction writer, editor, actress, and singer, is an African-American woman writer who has essentially been consigned to the dustbins of American literary history. Though contemporary with Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Charles W. Chesnutt, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, Hopkins is only now beginning to receive the kind of critical attention that Harper has enjoyed for a slightly longer period and that Chesnutt and Dunbar have always had. Hopkins had work published in several genres, but her reputation today rests primarily upon Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South, the novel she published in 1900. (Introduction by Margaret)

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Preface (Margaret Espaillat)
A Retrospect of the Past (Margaret Espaillat)
The Days "Before the War" (Margaret Espaillat)
"Coming Events Cast their Shadows Before" (Margaret Espaillat)
The Tragedy (Margaret Espaillat)
Ma Smith's Lodging-House (Margaret Espaillat)
Ma Smith's Lodging-House - Concluded (Margaret Espaillat)
Friendship (Margaret Espaillat)
The Sewing-Circle (Margaret Espaillat)
"Love Took up the Harp of Life" (Margaret Espaillat)
The Fair (Margaret Espaillat)
The Fair - Concluded (Margaret Espaillat)
A Colored Politician (Margaret Espaillat)
The American Colored League (Margaret Espaillat)
Luke Sawyer Speaks to the League (Margaret Espaillat)
Will Smith's Defense of his Race (Margaret Espaillat)
John Langley Consults Madam Frances (Margaret Espaillat)
The Canterbury Club Dinner (Margaret Espaillat)
What Easter Sunday Brought (Margaret Espaillat)
The Bitter Arrow (Margaret Espaillat)
Mother-Love (Margaret Espaillat)
After Many Days (Margaret Espaillat)
"So He Bringeth Them into their Desired Haven" (Margaret Espaillat)
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