Contending Forces

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - General Fiction, Romance

Authors: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins In Year : 1899

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Contending Forces

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

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)