Yours for Humanity

New Essays on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859–1930), African American novelist, editor, journalist, playwright, historian, and public intellectual, used fiction to explore and intervene in the social, racial, and political challenges of her era.

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859–1930), African American novelist, editor, journalist, playwright, historian, and public intellectual, used fiction to explore and intervene in the social, racial, and political challenges of her era. Her particular form of cultural activism was groundbreaking for its time and continues to influence and inspire authors and scholars today. This collection of essays constitutes a new phase in the full historical and literary recovery of her work.

JoAnn Pavletich argues that considered from the broadest of perspectives, Hopkins’s life work occupies itself with the critique and creation of epistemologies that control racialized knowledge and experience. Whether in representations of a critical contemporary problem such as lynching, imperialism, or pan-African unity or in representations of African American women’s voices, Hopkins’s texts create new knowledge and new frames for understanding it. The essays in this collection engage this knowledge, articulating nuanced understandings of Hopkins’s era and her innovative writing practices, opening new doors for the next generation of Hopkins scholarship. With contributions from well-established Hopkins scholars such as John Gruesser (editor of The Unruly Voice) and Hanna Wallinger (author of Pauline E. Hopkins: A Literary Biography), the collection also includes important new scholars on Hopkins such as Elizabeth Cali, Edlie Wong, and others.

Contributor: JoAnn Pavletich (Edited by), Sabine Engwer (Contributions by), Karin L. Hooks (Contributions by), Courtney Novosat (Contributions by), Colleen O'Brien (Contributions by), Geoffrey Sanborn (Contributions by), Cherene Sherrard-Johnson (Contributions by), Valerie Sirenko (Contributions by), Hanna Wallinger (Contributions by), Edlie L. Wong (Contributions by), John Cullen Gruesser (Foreword by), John Cyril Barton (Contributions by), Elizabeth Cali (Contributions by)

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