The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgments | xiii Introduction: The Motherless Child in the Post-Reconstruction United States | 1 chapter one “The blessed relief of tears”: Maternal Redemption in Contending Forces | 34 chapter two Motherlessness in the Nation’s Capital: The National Father in Hagar’s Daughter | 66 chapter three “Somethin’s gwine happen”: National Warning in Winona | 95 chapter four Finding Mother Africa: Of One Blood and Hopkins’s National Vision | 131 Coda | 157 Notes | 165 Bibliography | 181 Index | 193 This page intentionally left blank ILLUSTRATIONS Southern Chivalry—Argument versus Clubs, lithograph by John L. Magee, 1856 | 110 Brown of Osawatomie, unsigned woodcut in John Greenleaf Whittier’s National Lyrics, 1865 | 120 John Brown’s Blessing, by Thomas S. Noble, 1867 | 121 Flyer for Hopkins’ Colored Troubadours performance, 1882 | 146 This page intentionally left blank ...