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Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self: The Givens Collection Classics
Of One Blood is the last of four novels written by Pauline Hopkins. She is considered by some to be "the most prolific African-American woman writer and the most influential literary editor of the first decade of the twentieth century, though she is one of the lesser known literary figures of the much lauded Harlem Renaissance. Of One Blood first appeared in seri...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
June 15th 2010
by Washington Square Press
(first published February 2004)
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A fascinating novel from 1903 that appears to stage the transnational black political imaginary which defined much of the political energy around African American cultural production in the 1920s and 1930s. I very much look forward to thinking about this book's strange turns against their apparent correlates in Du Bois' strange "Dark Princess: a romance." If many of its turns are predictable for a reader familiar with Hopkins' (and Charles Chesnutt's) work, the development of a politic...more
There is a great lesson within this book. And Pauline showed incredible courage when she sought to write then publish what must have been revolutionary ideas at its time. To a large extent, it remains as provocative today.
Absolutely absurd.
I liked it, but I just have trouble with utopian societies that don't end up in ruin before the end of the book. That's a personal thing.
It was a quick read and I really got into it. I think I read it in a few days, and that was during the semester when I didn't have a lot of time.
It was a quick read and I really got into it. I think I read it in a few days, and that was during the semester when I didn't have a lot of time.
This was wierd from a reader's perspective but from a critical perspective it was amazing.
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