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Papers

The Pauline E. Hopkins papers are in the Fisk University Library in Nashville, Tennessee.

Works By the Author

Some of the following were published under pseudonym Sarah A. Allen

• Slaves' Escape, or, The Underground Railroad (play), produced in Boston, MA, at Oakland Garden, July 5, 1880, revised as Peculiar Sam, or The Underground Railroad.
• Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (novel), Colored Co-operative Publishing Company, 1900.
• Novel Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice, serialized in Colored American magazine, 1901-02.
• Novel Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest, serialized in Colored American magazine, 1902
• The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins, with an introduction by Hazel V. Carby, Oxford University Press, 1988.

Serial Fiction

For a modern collection of a number of these works, see The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins. Hazel V. Carby, Editor. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988.

• "The Mystery Within Us," Colored American, 1 (May 1900): 14-18.
• "Talma Gordon," Colored American, 1 (October 1900): 271-290.
• "George Washington, A Christmas Story," Colored American, 2 (December 1900): 95-104.
• "Hagar's Daughter, A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice," as Sarah A. Allen, novel serialized in Colored American, 2 (March 1901): 337-352; 2 (April 1901): 431-445; 3 (June 1901): 117-128; 3 (July 1901): 185-195; 3 (August 1901): 262-273; 3 (September 1901): 343-353; 3 (October 1901): 425-435; 4 (November 1901): 23-33; 4 (December 1901): 113-124; 4(January/February 1902): 188-200; 4 (March 1902): 281-291.
• "A Dash for Liberty," Colored American, 3 (August 1901): 243-247.
• "Bro'r Abr'm Jimson's Wedding, A Christmas Story," Colored American, 4 (December 1901): 103-112.
• "Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest," novel serialized in Colored American, 5 (May 1902): 29-40; 5 (June 1902): 97-110; 5(July 1902): 177-187; 5(August 1902): 257-268; 5(September 1902): 348-358; 5(October 1902): 422-431.
• "Of One Blood; or, The Hidden Self," novel serialized in Colored American, 6 (November 1902): 29-40; 6 (December 1902): 102-113; 6 (January 1903): 191-200; 6 (February 1903): 264-272; 6 (March 1903): 339-348; 6 (May/June 1903): 423-432; 6(July 1903): 492-501; 6 (August 1903): 580-586; 6 (September 1903): 643-647; 6 (October 1903): 726-731; 6 (November 1903): 802-807.
• "The Test of Manhood, A Christmas Story," as Sarah A. Allen, Colored American, 6 (December 1902): 113-119.
• "As the Lord Lives, He is One of Our Mother's Children," Colored American, 6 (November 1903): 795-801.

Periodical Publications: Nonfiction

• "Toussaint L'Ouverture: His Life and Times," Colored American, 2 (November 1900): 9-24
• "Famous Men of the Negro Race," series in Colored American, 2 (February 1901)-5 (September 1902); and "Famous Women of the Negro Race," series in Colored American, 4 (November 1901)-5 (October 1902).
• "The New York Subway," Voice of the Negro, 1 (December 1904): 605, 608-612.
• "The Dark Races of the Twentieth Century," Voice of the Negro, 2 (February 1905): 108-115; 2(March 1905): 187-191;2 (May 1905): 330-334; 2 (June 1905): 415-418; 2 (July 1905): 459-463.
  

(selected) Works About the Author

 

• Bennefield, Robin M. "Black Feminist Foremothers: Early Race Women From Slavery to Civil Rights."
  Black Issues in Higher Education 16:7 [27 May 1999].28-29, 33-34.
• Berzon, Judith R., Neither White nor Black: The Mulatto Character in American Fiction, New York University Press, 1978.
• Black Literature Criticism, Gale, 1992.
• Bone, Robert, The Negro Novel in America, Yale University Press, 1965.
• Carby, Hazel V., Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist, Oxford University Press, 1987.
• Cassidy, Thomas. "Contending Contexts: Pauline Hopkins's 'Contending Forces.'" African American Review 32:4 [Winter 1998]. 661-672.
• Collison, Michele N-K. "Race Women Stepping Forward: Following the Path of People Like Mary McLeod Bethune, Pauli Murray, and Anna Julia Cooper, Today's Generation of Race Women is Carving a Wide Path in the Academy, Transforming the Role Scholarship by Bslack Women Can and Must Play in African American Studies and Beyond." Black Issues in Higher Education 16:7 [27 May 1999]. 24-27, 32.
• De Vita, Alexis Brooks. "Not Passing on 'Beloved': The Sacrificial Child and the Circle of Redemption."
  The Griot 19:1 [Spring 2000]. 1-12.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 50: Afro- American Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance, Gale, 1987.
• Enomoto, Don M. " Irreconcilable Differences: 'Creative Destruction' and the Fashioning of the Self in 'Sarah Phillips.'" MELUS 24:1 [Spring 1999].209-234.
• Gloster, Hugh M., Negro Voices in American Fiction, University of North Carolina Press, 1948.
• Gruesser, John Cullen (Editor), The Unruly Voice: Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, University of Illinois Press, 1996.
• Hopkins, Pauline Elizabeth, Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (novel), Colored Co-operative Publishing Company, 1900.
• Horvitz, Deborah. "Hysteria and Trauma in Pauline Hopkins' 'Of One Blood; Or, the Hidden Self.'"
  African American Review 33:2 [Summer 1999]. 245-260
• Loggins, Vernon, The Negro Author: His Development in America to 1900, Columbia University Press, 1931.
• Musser, Judith. "African American Women's Short Stories in the Harlem Renaissance: Bridging a Tradition."
  MELUS 23:2 [Summer 1998].27-47.
• Patterson, Martha H. "'kin' o' rough jestice fer a parson': Pauline Hopkins's 'Winona' and the Politics of Reconstructing History." African American Review 32:3 [Fall 1998]. 445-460.
• Pryse, Marjorie, and Hortense J. Spillers, editors, Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition, Indiana University Press, 1985.
• Rohrbach, Augusta. "To Be Continued: Double Identity, Multiplicity and Antigenealogy as Narrative Strategies in Pauline Hopkins' Magazine Fiction." Callaloo - A Journal of African American and African Arts and Letters 22:2 [Spring 1999]. 483-498.
• Rush, Theressa Gunnels, Carol Fairbanks Myers, and Esther Spring Arata, Black American Writers Past and Present: A Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary,
• Shockley, Ann Allen. "Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: A Biographical Excursion into Obscurity," Phylon, 33 (1972): 22-26.
• Claudia Tate, "Pauline Hopkins: Our Literary Foremother," in Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition, edited by Marjorie Pryse and Hortense J. Spillers (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985).

See Also:

• The Schomburg Guide to Black Literature, Gale, 1996.
• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Volume 28, Gale, 1988.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 50: Afro-American Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Trudier Harris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Gale Group, 1986. pp. 182-189.