Race-ing toward civilization: sexual slavery and nativism in the novels of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins and Alice Wellington Rollins.

From: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The ongoing work of restoring "lost" nineteenth-century women writers to the American literary canon often yields the added benefit of bringing to light experiences of ethnic groups left out of the dominant narrative of American identity. The opportunity to compare ethnic American literatures can provide fascinating new approaches to better-known authors like Pauline Hopkins, whose literary concerns extend beyond the social and domestic needs of her own African American community. Hopkins interrogates the very foundations of equality and democracy as the United States turns into ...

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