Identity crisis and black feminism in Pauline Hopkins Hagars daughter
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2015
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university of Oum-El-Bouaghi
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This research investigates the issue of female identity in Pauline Hopkins' first novel Hagar's Daughter : A story of southern caste Prejudice. More specifically, it examines the impact of racial prejudice and social injustice on the black identity through the female characters which are embodied in the text. In addition, our study demonstrates how the writer promotes for an ultimate solution to the problem of race in America relying on the idea of merging the two ethnic groups. Furthermore, it shows the persecutions of the aristocratic American community toward black women in general through listing the painful events that Hagar and Her Daughter Jewel went through. However, the main reason that makes the story of Hagar's Daughter a literary masterpiece is its way of introducing near white characters and including romantic elements in her tale to grasp and address all groups of the American society. In brief, this study seeks to appreciate female African American writers who fought beside black men to raise the black consciousness using pen as a weapon against this anarchical system of oppression and segregation ,meanwhile, it presents the author's heroism in dealing with such issues through a very innovative way.
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Novel : Pauline Hopkins : Daughter