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Contending Forces

A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South

Pauline E Hopkins author Richard Yarborough editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:16th Jul '92

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Both an extraordinarily detailed examination of black life in nineteenth-century America and a richly textured and engrossing piece of fiction, Contending Forces remains one of the most important works produced by an African American before World War I.

"A gift to the profession (and to our students) to have the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women's Writers in affordable paperback."--Janet Gabler-Hover, Georgia State Univ. "Brilliant...her masterwork."--Eric J. Sundquist in The New York Times Book Review "Terrific romance!"--Leonard Cassuto, Fordham University, Lincoln Center "Fits into my course wonderfully."--Noelle Arrangoiz, University of Denver "An excellent study of the current Supreme Court . . . it is comprehensive in ite understanding of the Rehnquist Court's place in the postwar political and judicial era, especially from the Warren Court period to the present." -- Criminal Justice Review "A gift to the profession (and to our students) to have the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women's Writers in affordable paperback."--Janet Gabler-Hover, Georgia State Univ. "Brilliant...her masterwork."--Eric J. Sundquist in The New York Times Book Review "Terrific romance!"--Leonard Cassuto, Fordham University, Lincoln Center "Fits into my course wonderfully."--Noelle Arrangoiz, University of Denver

ISBN: 9780195067859

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 28mm

Weight: 590g

464 pages