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Talma Gordon (Paperback)
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Talma Gordon (Paperback)
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Loot Price R167
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Talma Gordon (1900) is a short story by Pauline E. Hopkins.
Recognized as the first African American mystery story, Talma
Gordon was originally published in the October 1900 edition of The
Colored American Magazine, America's first monthly periodical
covering African American arts and culture. Combining themes of
racial identity and passing with a locked room mystery plot,
Hopkins weaves a masterful tale of conspiracy, suspicion, and
murder. "When the trial was called Jeannette sat beside Talma in
the prisoner's dock; both were arrayed in deepest mourning, Talma
was pale and careworn, but seemed uplifted, spiritualized, as it
were. [...] She had changed much too: hollow cheeks, tottering
steps, eyes blazing with fever, all suggestive of rapid and
premature decay." When Puritan descendant Jonathan Gordon is
discovered murdered under suspicious circumstances, the ensuing
trial implicates his own daughter Talma. Despite being declared
innocent, the townsfolk are determined to believe that Talma
conspired to have her father killed after he discovered her mixed
racial heritage. Freed from the prospect of imprisonment, Talma is
left with only her sister's protection against the anger and
violence of her neighbors. With this thrilling tale of murder and
racial tension, Hopkins proves herself as a true pioneer of
American literature, a woman whose talent and principles afforded
her the vision necessary for illuminating the injustices of life in
a nation founded on slavery and genocide. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of Pauline E. Hopkins' Talma Gordon is a classic work of African
American literature reimagined for modern readers.
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