How Long to Read Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream

How Long Does it Take to Read Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 33 minutes to read Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream by Alisha Knight

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins was perhaps the most prolific black female writer of her time. Between 1900 and 1904, writing mainly for Colored American Magazine, she published four novels, at least seven short stories, and numerous articles that often addressed the injustices and challenges facing African Americans in post–Civil War America. In Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream, Alisha Knight provides the first full-length critical analysis of Hopkins’s work. Scholars have frequently situated Hopkins within the domestic, sentimental tradition of nineteenth-century women's writing, with some critics observing that aspects of her writing, particularly its emphasis on the self-made man, seem out of place within the domestic tradition. Knight argues that Hopkins used this often-dismissed theme to critique American society's ingrained racism and sexism. In her “Famous Men” and “Famous Women” series for Colored American Magazine, she constructed her own version of the success narrative by offering models of African American self-made men and women. Meanwhile, in her fiction, she depicted heroes who fail to achieve success or must leave the United States to do so. Hopkins risked and eventually lost her position at Colored American Magazine by challenging black male leaders, liberal white philanthropists, and white racists—and by conceiving a revolutionary treatment of the American Dream that placed her far ahead of her time. Hopkins is finally getting her due, and this clear-eyed analysis of her work will be a revelation to literary scholars, historians of African American history, and students of women’s studies. Alisha Knight is an associate professor of English and American Studies at Washington College. Her published articles include “Furnace Blasts for the Tuskegee Wizard: Revisiting Pauline E. Hopkins, Booker T. Washington, and the Colored American Magazine,” which appeared in American Periodicals.

How long is Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream?

Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream by Alisha Knight is 152 pages long, and a total of 38,304 words.

This makes it 51% the length of the average book. It also has 47% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 29 minutes to read Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream aloud.

What Reading Level is Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream?

Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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