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

by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195067851
• ISBN13: 9780195067859
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"