{"product_id":"pauline-hopkins-and-the-american-alisha-knight-9781572339545","title":"Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream: An African American Writer's (Re)Visionary Gospel of Success","description":"\u003cp\u003ePauline Elizabeth Hopkins was perhaps the most prolific black female writer of her time. Between 1900 and 1904, writing mainly for\u003ci\u003e Colored American Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003eshe published four novels, at least seven short stories, and numerous articles that often addressed the injustices and challenges facing African Americans in post-Civil War America. In \u003ci\u003ePauline Hopkins and the American Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, Alisha Knight provides the first full-length critical analysis of Hopkins's work.\u003cbr\u003e Scholars have frequently situated Hopkins within the domestic, sentimental tradition of nineteenth-century women's writing, with some critics observing that aspects of her writing, particularly its emphasis on the self-made man, seem out of place within the domestic tradition. Knight argues that Hopkins used this often-dismissed theme to critique American society's ingrained racism and sexism. In her \"Famous Men\" and \"Famous Women\" series for \u003ci\u003eColored American Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e she constructed her own version of the success narrative by offering models of African American self-made men and women. Meanwhile, in her fiction, she depicted heroes who fail to achieve success or must leave the United States to do so.\u003cbr\u003e Hopkins risked and eventually lost her position at \u003ci\u003eColored American Magazine \u003c\/i\u003eby challenging black male leaders, liberal white philanthropists, and white racists--and by conceiving a revolutionary treatment of the American Dream that placed her far ahead of her time. Hopkins is finally getting her due, and this clear-eyed analysis of her work will be a revelation to literary scholars, historians of African American history, and students of women's studies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlisha Knight is an associate professor of English and American Studies at Washington College. Her published articles include \"Furnace Blasts for the Tuskegee Wizard: Revisiting Pauline E. Hopkins, Booker T. Washington, and the Colored American Magazine,\" which appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Periodicals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alisha Knight\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1572339543\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781572339545\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Tennessee Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d","brand":"Alisha Knight","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47930845528319,"sku":"9781572339545","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6665bfde-e670-43fc-8fc5-f3d2dff624aa.jpg?v=1766344666","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pauline-hopkins-and-the-american-alisha-knight-9781572339545","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}