What would he do, or rather what ought he to do, in such a crisis of a lifetime?
Part II on "The Wife of His Youth" by Charles Chestnutt and "Talma Gordon" by Pauline E. Hopkins
If you haven’t read the first half of this discussion of these two stories, please do:
Last week, I mentioned that Pauline Hopkins was the editor of the most widely distributed African American literary magazine when her story “Talma Gordon” came out. As many scholars have noted, this magazine was in direct competition with the NAACP’s Crisis magazine, …
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