A Hopkins Bibliography
Bibliography courtesy of Dr. Ana Nunes, Instituto de Estudos Norte-Americanos, University of Coimbra, Portugal. Updated March 2012 by Jill Goad; 2013-2015 by Mary Frances Jiménez.
Primary Sources
Drama
Colored Aristocracy, 1877.
“One Scene from the Drama of Early Days,” c. 1870s.
Slave’s Escape: Or the Underground Railroad. Boston Oakland Garden, July 5. Edited and revised as Peculiar Sam: Or the Underground Railroad. Reprinted in The Roots of African American Drama: An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938. Leo Hamalian, James Vernon Hatch (Eds.). Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992.
Novels
Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South. Boston: Colored Co-operative Publishing Co., 1900. Reprinted in Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South, 1900. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Hagar’s Daughter: A Story of Southern Prejudice. A novel, under the pseudonym Sarah A. Allen, serialized inColored American, March 1901-March 1902. Reprinted in The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, 1988; Hagar’s Daughter. London: The X Press, 2003.
Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self. Serialized in Colored America, November 1902-November 1903. Reprinted in The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, 1988; Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self. New York: Washington Square Press, 2004.
Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest. Serialized in Colored American, May 1902-October 1902. Reprinted in The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Novels in Translation
Manuel, Carme, ed. Conflicto de fuerzas. Por Pauline E. Hopkins.
Trad. Carme Manuel. Madrid: Cátedra, 2012.
Short Stories
“A Dash for Liberty.” Colored American, August 1901. Reprinted in Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900-1920. Ed. Elizabeth Ammos. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
“As the Lord Lives, He is One of Our Mother’s Children.” Colored American, November 1903. Reprinted inShort Fiction by Black Women, 1900-1920. Ed. Elizabeth Ammos. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
“Bro’r Abr’m Jimson’s Wedding.” Colored American, December 1904. Reprinted in Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900-1920. Ed. Elizabeth Ammos. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
“General Washington, A Christmas Story.” Colored Magazine, December 1900. Reprinted in Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900-1920. Ed. Elizabeth Ammos. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
“Talma Gordon.” Colored Magazine, October 1900. Reprinted in Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900-1920. Ed. Elizabeth Ammos. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991; The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay. New York: Norton & Norton and Co., 2004.
“The Mystery Within Us.” Colored Magazine, May 1900. Reprinted in Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900-1920. Ed. Elizabeth Ammos. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
“The Test of Manhood, A Christmas Story” (under the pseudonym of Sarah A. Allen). Colored Magazine, December 1906. Reprinted in Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900-1920. Ed. Elizabeth Ammos. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
“Topsy Templeton.” New Era, 1916.
Journalism, Essays, and Other Works
“A New Profession: the First Colored Graduate of the Y. M. C. A. Training School.” Colored American, September 1903.
A Primer of Facts Pertaining to the Early Greatness of the African Race and the Possibility of Its Restoration by Its Descendants—With Epilogue. Cambridge: P. E. Hopkins and Company, 1905.
“Echoes from the Annual Convention of Northeastern Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs.” Colored American, December 1902.
“Evils of Intemperance and Their Remedies,” 1874. Winning essay submitted to and later published by the Congregational Publishing Society of Boston.
“Famous Men of the Negro Race.” Colored Magazine, November 1900 to October 1901 (twelve monthly instalments). “Booker T. Washington” (1901) is reprinted in The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay. New York: Norton & Norton and Co., 2004.
“Famous Women of the Negro Race.” Colored Magazine, November 1901 to October 1902 (eleven monthly instalments). “Literary Works, Concluded” (1902) is reprinted in The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay. New York: Norton & Norton and Co., 2004.
“Furnace Blasts I: The Growth of the Social Evil Among All Classes and Races in America.” Colored American, February 1903.
“Furnace Blasts II: Black or White—Which Should Be the Young Afro-American’s Choice in Marriage.” Colored American, March 1903.
“Heroes and Heroines in Black.” Colored American, January 1903.
“How a New York Newspaper Man Entertained a Number of Colored Ladies and Gentlemen at Dinner in the Revere House, Boston, and How the Colored American League Was Started.” Colored American, March 1904.
“Latest Phases of the Race Problem in America.” Colored American, February 1903.
“Men of Vision.” New Era Magazine, February 1916 to March 1916.
“Munroe Rodgers.” Colored American, November 1902.
“Mr Alan Kirkland Soga.” Colored American, February 1904.
“Mr M. Hamilton Hodges.” Colored American, March 1904.
“Pauline E. Hopkins to Cornelia A. Condict.” Colored American, March 1903. Reprinted in The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay. New York: Norton & Norton and Co., 2004.
“Reminiscences of the Life and Times of Lydia Maria Child.” Colored American, February 1903.
“Rev. John Henry Dorsey.” Colored American, October 1902.
“The Dark Races of the Twentieth Century.” Voice of the Negro, February to July 1905.
“The New York Subway.” Voice of the Negro, December 1904.
“Whittier, The Friend of the Negro.” Colored American, September 1901.
“William Pickens, Yale University.” Colored American, July 1903.
Secondary Sources
Allen, Carol. Black Women Intellectuals: Strategies of Nation Family, and Neighborhood in the Works of Pauline Hopkins, Jessie Fauset, and Marita Bonner. New York, NY: Garland; 1998.
Beam, Dorri. Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2010.
Benjamin, Shanna Greene. “Race, Faces, and False Fronts: Shakespearean Signifying in the Colored American Magazine.” African American Review 43.4 (Winter 2009): 621-631.
Berg, Allison. “Reconstructing Motherhood: Pauline Hopkins’ Contending Forces.” Studies in American Fiction, 1996 Autumn; 24 (2): 131-50.
Bergman, Jill. “‘A New Race of Colored Women’: Pauline Hopkins at the Colored American Magazine.” Feminist Forerunners: New Womanism and Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century. Ann Heilmann (Ed. and introd.). London, England: Pandora; 2003, pp. 87-100.
Bergman, Jill. “‘Everything We Hoped She’d Be’: Contending Forces in Hopkins Scholarship”. African American Review, 2004 Summer; 38 (2): 181-99.
Bergman, Jill. “The Motherless Child in Pauline Hopkins’ Of One Blood.” Legacy 25.2 (2008): 286-298.
Bernardi, Debra. “Narratives of Domestic Imperialism: The African- American Home in the Colored American Magazine and the Novels of Pauline Hopkins, 1900-1903.” Separate Spheres No More: Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930. Monika M Elbert (Ed. and introd.). Tuscaloosa, AL: U of Alabama P; 2000, pp. 203-24.
Birge, Amy Anastasia. “Rape and Redemption: The Revision of ‘Colored’ Female Chastity in Pauline Hopkins’sContending Forces and Anne Rice’s The Feast of All Saints.” Songs of the New South: Writing Contemporary Louisiana. Suzanne Disheroon Green, Lisa Abney (Eds.). Westport, CT: Greenwood; 2001, pp. 183-92.
Bone, Robert A. The Negro Novel in America. New Haven: Yale UP; 1965.
Bost, Suzanne. “Fluidity Without Postmodernism: Michelle Cliff and the ‘Tragic Mulatta’ Tradition.” African American Review, 1998 Winter; 32 (4): 673-89.
Brooks, Kristina. “New Woman, Fallen Woman: The Crisis of Reputation in Turn-of-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton.” A Journal of American Women Writers, 1996; 13 (2): 91-112.
Brooks, Kristina. “Mammies, Bucks, and Wenches: Minstrelsy, Racial Pornography, and Racial Politics in Pauline Hopkins’s Hagar’s Daughter.” The Unruly Voice: Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. John Cullen Gruesser (Ed.). Urbana: U of Illinois P; 1996, pp. 119-57.
Brown, Lois Lamphere. “‘To Allow No Tragic End’: Defensive Postures in Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces.” The Unruly Voice: Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. John Cullen Gruesser (Ed.). Urbana: U of Illinois P; 1996, pp. 50-70.
Brown, Lois. Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina P, 2008.
Bussey, Susan Hays. “Whose Will Be Done? Self-Determination in Pauline Hopkins’s Hagar’s Daughter.” African American Review, 2005 Fall; 39 (3): 299-313.
Campbell, Jane. “Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins.” Afro-American Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance. Trudier Harris, Thadious M. Davis (Eds.). Detroit, MI: Gale, 1986, pp. 182-89.
Carby, Hazel V. “Introduction.” The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Carby, Hazel V. “‘On the Threshold of the Woman’s Era’: Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory.” Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives. Anne McClintock, Aamir Mufti, Ella Shohat (Eds.). Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota P; 1997, pp. 330-43.
Cassidy, Thomas. “Contending Contexts: Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces.” African American Review, 1998 Winter; 32 (4): 661-72.
Cordell, Sigrid Anderson. “‘The Case Was Very Black Against Her’: Pauline Hopkins and the Politics of Racial Ambiguity at the Colored Magazine.” American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography, 2006; 16 (1): 52-73.
Diana, Vanessa Holford. “Narrative Patternings of Resistance in Frances E.W. Harper’s Iola Leroy and Pauline Hopkins’ Contending Forces.” Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds. Ed. Kristin Waters and Carol Conaway. Hanover, NH: UP of New England, 2007.
DeLamotte, Eugenia. “‘Collusions of the Mystery’: Ideology and the Gothic in Hagar’s Daughter.” Gothic Studies, 2004 May; 6 (1): 69-79.
Doreski, C. K. “Inherited Rhetoric and Authentic History: Pauline Hopkins and the Colored American Magazine.” The Unruly Voice: Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. John Cullen Gruesser (Ed.). Urbana: U of Illinois P; 1996, pp. 71-97.
Doyle, Laura. Freedom’s Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940. Durham, NC: Duke UP; 2008.
Dworkin, Ira (Ed.). Daughter of the Revolution: The Major Nonfiction Works of Pauline E. Hopkins. Rutgers: Piscataway, 2007.
Fabi, M. Giulia. “Taming the Amazon? The Price of Survival in Turn-of-the-Century African American Women’s Fiction.” The Insular Dream: Obsession and Resistance. Kristiaan Versluys (Ed.). Amsterdam: VU UP; 1995.
Fraser, Gordon. “Transnational Healing in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood; or, The Hidden Self.” Novel, 2013 Fall; 46 (3): 364-385.
Fulton, DoVeanna S. Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women’s Narratives of Slavery. Albany, NY: State U of New York P; 2006.
Gabler-Hover, Janet. “Prodigal Daughers: Hopkins’s Hagar’s Daughter and Black Female Identity.” Dreaming Black/Writing White: The Hagar Myth in American Cultural History. Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky; 2000, pp. 122-157.
Gabler-Hover, Janet. “Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930).” Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Denise D. Knight, Emmanuel S. Nelson (Ed.). Westport, CT: Greenwood; 1997, pp. 236-40.
Gillman, Susan. Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P; 2003.
Gillman, Susan. “Pauline Hopkins and the Occult: African-American Revision of the Nineteenth-Century Sciences.” American Literary History, 1996 Spring; 8 (1): 57-82.
Goodman, Paul. Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. Berkeley, CA: U of California P; 1998.
Goyal, Yogita. Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2010.
Gruesser, John Cullen. Confluences: Postcolonialism, African American Studies, and the Black Atlantic. Athens, GA: U of Georgia P; 2005.
Gruesser, John Cullen (Ed.). The Unruly Voice: Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. Urbana: U of Illinois P; 1996.
Gruesser, John. “Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood: Creating an Afro-Centric Fantasy for a Black Middle Class Audience.” Modes of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Robert A. Latham, Robert A. Collins (Eds). Westport, CT: Greenwood; 1995, pp. 74-83.
Harris, Marla. “Not Black and/or White: Reading Racial Difference in Heliodorus’s Ethiopica and Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood.” African American Review, 2001 Fall; 35 (3): 75-90.
Hebert, Kimberly G. “Uncovering Codes/(Re)Covering Africa: Pauline Hopkins’ Linguistic Journey to a Hidden Self.” Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Texts and Contexts. Ed. Charles Cantalupo. Trenton, NJ: Africa World, 1995.
Horvitz, Deborah. “Hysteria and Trauma in Pauline Hopkins’ Of One Blood; Or, the Hidden Self.” African American Review, 1999 Summer; 33 (2): 245-60.
Japtok, Martin. “Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood, Africa, and the ‘Darwinist Trap’.” African American Review, 2002 Fall; 36 (3): 403-15.
Kassanoff, Jennie A. “‘Fate Has Linked Us Together’: Blood, Gender, and the Politics of Representation in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood.” John Cullen Gruesser (Ed.). The Unruly Voice: Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. Urbana: U of Illinois P; 1996, pp. 158-81.
Knadler, Stephen. “Traumatized Racial Performativity: Passing in Nineteenth-Century African American Testimonies.” Cultural Critique, 2003 Fall; 55: 63-100.
Knight, Alisha. “Furnace Blasts for the Tuskegee Wizard: Revisiting Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Booker T. Washington and the Colored American Magazine.” American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography 17.1 (2007): 41-64.
Knight, Alisha. Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream: An African American Writer’s (Re)Visionary Gospel of Success. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee Press, 2012.
Korobkin, Laura H. “Imagining State and Federal Law in Pauline E. Hopkins’s Contending Forces.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 28.1 (2011): 1-23.
Larson, Jennifer. “Pauline Hopkins.” Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature by Women of Color. Ed. Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2006.
Lewis, Vashti Crutcher. “Worldview and the Use of the Near-White Heroine in Pauline Hopkins’ Contending Forces.” Journal of Black Studies 28.5 (May 1998): 616-627.
Luciano, Dana. “Passing Shadows: Melancholic Nationality and Black Critical Publicity in Pauline E. Hopkins’sOf One Blood.” Loss: The Politics of Mourning. David L. Eng., David Kazanjian. Berkeley, CA: U of California P; 2003, pp. 148-87.
Marcus, Lisa. “‘Of One Blood’: Reimagining American Genealogy in Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces.”Speaking the Other Self: American Women Writers. Jeanne Reesman (Ed.). Athens, GA: U of Georgia P; 1997, pp. 117-43.
McAvoy, Mary. “Between Blackface and Bondage: The Incompletely Forgotten Failure of The Underground Railroad‘s 1879 Midwestern Tour.” The Journal of American Drama and Theater, 2014; 26 (1).
McCann, Sean. “‘Bonds of Brotherhood’: Pauline Hopkins and the Work of Melodrama.” ELH, 1997 Fall; 64 (3): 789-822.
McCoy, Beth. “Rumors of Disgrace: White Masculinity in Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces.” African American Review, 2003 Winter; 37 (4): 569-81.
McCullough, Kate. “Slavery, Sexuality, and Genre: Pauline Hopkins and the Representation of the Female Desire.” John Cullen Gruesser (Ed.). The Unruly Voice: Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. Urbana: U of Illinois P; 1996, pp. 21-49.
Mitchell, Verner D. Literary Sisters: Dorothy West and Her Circle, A Biography of the Harlem Renaissance. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2011.
Nelson, Emmanuel Sampath. African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-Biographical Critical Source Book. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000.
Nerad, Julie Cary. “‘So Strangely Interwoven’: The Property of Inheritance, Race, and Sexual Morality in Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces.” African American Review, 2001 Fall; 35 (3): 357-73.
Nickel, John. “Eugenics and the Fiction of Pauline Hopkins.” American Transcendental Quarterly, 2000 Mar; 14 (1): 47-60.
Nickel, John. “Eugenics and the Fiction of Pauline Hopkins.” Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complexity. Lois A. Cuddy, Claire M. Roche (Eds.). Lewisburg, PA; London, England: Bucknell UP; Associated UP; 2003, pp. 133-47.
Nowatzki, Robert C. “Miscegenation and the Rhetoric of ‘Blood’ in Three Turn-of-the-Century African American Novels.” Journal of Contemporary Thought, 1996; 6: 41-50.
Nurhussein, Nadia. “’The Hand of Mysticism’: Ethiopianist Writing in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood and the Colored American Magazine.” Callaloo 33.1 (Winter 2010): 278-289.
O’Brien, Colleen C. “’Blacks in All Quarters of the Globe’: Anti-Imperialism, Insurgent Cosmopolitanism, and International Labor in Pauline Hopkins’s Literary Journalism.” American Quarterly 61.2 (June 2009): 245-270.
O’Brien, Colleen C. “Race-ing Toward a Civilization: Sexual Slavery and Nativism in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins and Alice Wellington Rollins.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, 2003; 20 (1-2): 118-33.
Olaivar, Tamara. “‘Your Coporosity Sagaciating OK?’” James Joyce Quarterly, 1996 Fall-1997 Winter; 34 (1-2): 173-74.
Otten, Thomas J. “Pauline Hopkins and the Hidden Self of Race.” ELH, 1992 Spring; 59 (1): 227-56.
Pampling, Claire. “‘Race’ and Identity in Pauline Hopkins’s Hagar’s Daughter.” Redefining the Political Novel: Women Writers, 1797-1901. Ed. Sharon M. Harris. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1995.
Patterson, Martha. Beyond the Gibson Girl: Reimagining the American New Woman 1895-1915. IL: U of Illinois P; 2005.
Patterson, Martha H. “’Kin’ o’ Rough Jestice Fer a Parson’: Pauline Hopkins’s Winona and the Politics of Reconstructing History.” African American Review 32.3 (Autumn 1998): 445-460.
Peterson, Carla L. “Commemorative Ceremonies and Invented Traditions: History, Memory, and Modernity in the ‘New Negro’ Novel of the Nadir.” Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture. Barbara McCaskill, Caroline Gebhard (Ed.). New York, NY: New York UP; 2006, pp. 34-56.
Peterson, Carla. “Unsettled Frontiers: Race, History, and Romance in Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces.” Famous Last Words: Changes in Gender and Narrative Closure. Ed. Alison Booth. London: University Press of Virginia, 1993.
Putzi, Jennifer. “‘Raising the Stigma’: Black Womanhood and the Marked Body in Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces.” College Literature, 2004 Spring; 31 (2): 1-21.
Randle, Gloria T. “Mates, Marriage, and Motherhood: Feminist Visions Body in Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, 1999 Fall; 18 (2): 193-214.
Rohrbach, Augusta. “To Be Continued: Double Identity, Multiplicity and the Antigenealogy as Narrative Strategies in Pauline Hopkins’ Magazine Fiction.” Callaloo, 1999 Spring; 22 (2): 483-98.
Rohy, Valerie. “Time Lines: Pauline Hopkins’ Literary History.” American Literary Realism, 2003 Spring; 35 (3): 212-32.
Roses, Lorraine Elena and Randolph, Ruth Elizabeth. Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers 1900-1945. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Salvant, Shawn. “Pauline Hopkins and the End of Incest.” African-American Review 42.3-4 (2008): 659-677.
Sawaya, Francesca. Modern Women, Modern Work. Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890-1950. Philadelphia, PA: U of Pennsylvania P; 2003.
Sawaya, Francesca. “Emplotting National History: Regionalism and Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces.”Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Women’s Regional Writing. Sherrie A Inness, Diana Royer (Eds.). Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa P; 1997, pp. 72-87.
Schrager, Cynthia D. “Pauline Hopkins and William James: The New Psychology and the Politics of Race.” The Unruly Voice: Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. John Cullen Gruesser (Ed.). Urbana: U of Illinois P; 1996, pp. 182-209.
Somerville, Siobhan. “‘The Prettiest Specimen of Boyhood’: Cross-gender and Racial Disguise in Pauline E. Hopkins’s Winona.” Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture: Critical Essays. Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, Ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.
Somerville, Siobhan. “Passing Trough the Closet in Pauline E. Hopkins’s Contending Forces.” American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography, 1997 Mar; 69 (1): 139-66.
Stevenson, Pascha A. “Of One Blood, of One Race: Pauline Hopkins’ Engagement of Racialized Science.” CLA Journal, 2002 June; 45 (4): 422-43.
Tate, Claudia. “Pauline Hopkins: Our Literary Foremother.” Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition. Marjorie Pryse, Hortense J. Spillers (Eds.). Bloomington: Indiana UP; 1985, pp. 53-66.
Tate, Claudia. “Allegories of Black Female Desire; or, Rereading Nineteen-Century Sentimental Narratives of Black Female Authority.” Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory and Writing by Black Women. Ed. Cheryl A. Wall. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989.
Tate, Claudia. Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine’s Text at the Turn of the Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Tate, Claudia. “Pauline Hopkins.” The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Eds. William L. Andrews. Frances Smith Foster, Trudier Harris. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Wallinger, Hannah. Pauline E. Hopkins: A Literary Biography. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2005.
Wallinger, Hanna. “Agitation in the Family: Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition and Pauline E. Hopkins’s Contending Forces.” The Self at Risk in English Literatures and Other Landscapes/Das Risiko Selbst in der englischsprachigen Literatur und in anderen Bereichen. Gudrun M. Grabher, Sonja Bahn-Coblans (Eds.). Innsbruck, Austria: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Innsbruck; 1999, pp. 61-73.
Walters, Tracey L. African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition: Back Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan; 2007.
Watkins, Patricia D. “Rape, Lynching, Law and Contending Forces: Pauline Hopkins—Forerunner of Critical Race Theorists.” CLA Journal, 2003 June; 46 (4): 521-42.
West, Elizabeth J. “Christianity and a Reawakening Africanity: Black Spirituality in the Post-Reconstruction Novels of Frances E. W. Harper and Pauline Hopkins.” African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction: Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature, and Being. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2011. 95-126.
Woodard, Vincent. “Deciphering the Race-Sex Diaspora in Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces.”Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, 2006 Fall; 8 (1): 72-93.
Yarborough, Richard. “Introduction.” Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South, 1900. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Zackodnik, Teresa. “Little Romances and Mulatta Heroines: Passing for a ‘True’ Woman in Frances Harper’sIola Leroy and Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces.” Nineteenth-Century Feminisms, 2000 Spring-Summer; 2: 103-24.
