The PEHS requests submissions for its upcoming panel, “Hopkins and Her Contemporaries: Responses to Racial Violence, Appeals for Racial Justice.”
Well over a century separates our historical moment from the “lynching era” of Wells, Hopkins, and their contemporaries. Our two worlds, however, share much in common and are historically linked—not unlike the Southern world of North Carolina in the 1790s and the contemporaneous Northern world of Boston in the 1890s that Hopkins interlinks and about which she powerfully writes in Contending Forces. As the American Literature Association reconvenes in the Boston of our own day, The Pauline E. Hopkins Society invites proposals that examine any aspect of racial violence in the work of Hopkins and her contemporaries—especially Ida Wells—for presentation at the 31st-annual convention in May 2021. Abstracts are due to John Barton at bartonjc@umkc.edu by February 15, 2021. Click here to download the full CFP and proposal requirements.
