
Contending Forces
A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South
Pauline E. Hopkins(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 16. July 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-0-19-506785-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
halftones
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
650 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-506785-9 (9780195067859)
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07/1988
Oxford University Press Inc
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