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Believing fiction to be an invaluable tool for social change, Pauline E. Hopkins used her first novel to challenge the racist and sexist assumptions of her time. Contending Forces operates on an epic scale―with settings ranging from antebellum North Carolina to post–Civil War Boston―and Hopkins surveys this panorama with an eye in particular on the intersections of race, class, and gender relations. These themes are embodied most fully by its protagonist, Sappho Clark, who exerts an indomitable female agency, despite her vulnerability to the oppressive forces that surround her.
Rife with murder, blackmail, secrets, and twists of fate, Contending Forces succeeds as both a gripping high-stakes romance and as a subversion of the tropes then associated with the genre. Hailed by the New York Times as “her masterwork,” Hopkins’s ambitious novel of the post-Reconstruction era is an illuminating rediscovery for twenty-first-century readers―by a woman of her time, and ahead of it.
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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859–1930) was a writer, historian, and activist born in Portland, Maine, and educated at Girls High School in Boston. After pursuing jobs as an actress and as a singer, Hopkins chose to focus on her literary ambitions and went on to have an extensive writing career as the author of four novels, numerous short stories, essays, and a play. Hopkins also served as editor at the pioneering Colored American Magazine, where she was able to explore Black history, racial and economic discrimination, and equality for women in a deep and sustained manner.
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