Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) - Softcover

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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.

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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.

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Richard Yarborough is at University of California, Los Angeles.

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  • PublisherOxford University Press
  • Publication date1991
  • ISBN 10 0195067851
  • ISBN 13 9780195067859
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  • LanguageEnglish
  • Number of pages464
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