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Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
Contending Forces A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South - Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers Author:Pauline E. Hopkins In ^IContending Forces^R (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 sce... more »nes, and a star-crossed love affair. Both an extraordinarily detailed examination of black life in nineteenth-century America and a richly textured and e« less