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From the Deck of the U.S.S. Dixie From the Deck of the U.S.S. Dixie
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Hopkins’s “International Policy” Hopkins’s “International Policy”
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Narrative Point of View and De-raced Authority in Of One Blood Narrative Point of View and De-raced Authority in Of One Blood
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4 Pauline Hopkins’s “International Policy”: Cosmopolitan Perspective at the Colored American Magazine
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Published:May 2010
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This chapter explores the critical debate about Pauline Hopkins' contradictory relationship to imperialism in her work by arguing that her characterization of Reuel Briggs in Africa in the serially published novel Of One Blood, Or, The Hidden Self (1902–3) self-consciously echoes and signifies ambivalent constructions of black cosmopolitanism found in the Colored American Magazine (CAM). Drawing on Hopkins' correspondence about her published works in the magazine that she adapted for her portrayal of Reuel, it contends that that Hopkins' story about a racially ambiguous figure shadowing the white man's burden both symptomizes and diagnoses the magazine's uneasy linkage between African American uplift and U.S. global power. By placing Hopkins' novel in this textual and historical context, the chapter proposes not to resolve the question of Hopkins' conflicted relationship to imperialism but to demonstrate that she self-consciously identified this conflict when she pieced together Reuel's perspectives.
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