{"product_id":"the-hindered-hand-paperback","title":"The Hindered Hand - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSutton E. Griggs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Cullen Gruesser\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eHanna Wallinger\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 1899 and 1908, five long works of fiction by the Nashville-based black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs appeared in print, making him the most prolific African American novelist at the turn of the twentieth century. Brought out by Griggs's own Orion Publishing Company in three distinct printings in 1905 and 1906, \u003ci\u003eThe Hindered Hand; or, the Reign of the Repressionist\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the author's key themes of amalgamation, emigration, armed resistance, and US overseas expansion; includes a melodramatic love story; and features two of the most sensational scenes in early African American fiction--a harrowingly graphic lynching of an innocent black couple based on actual events and the elaboration of a plot to wipe out white Southerners by introducing yellow fever germs into the water supply. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written in response to Thomas Dixon's recently published race-baiting \u003ci\u003enovel The Leopard's Spots\u003c\/i\u003e, Griggs's book depicts the remnants of the old Southern planter class, the racial crisis threatening the South and the North, the social ferment of the time, the changing roles of women, and the thwarted aspirations of a trio of African American veterans following the war against Spain. This scholarly edition of the novel, providing newly discovered biographical information and copious historical context, makes a significant contribution to African American literary scholarship. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Cullen Gruesser is the author of \u003ci\u003eRace, Gender, and Empire in American Detective Fiction; The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion; Confluences: Postcolonialism, African American Literary Studies, \u003c\/i\u003e and the Black Atlantic; and \u003ci\u003eBlack on Black: Twentieth-Century African American Writing about Africa.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hanna Wallinger is associate professor of American studies at Salzburg University in Austria and the author of \u003ci\u003ePauline E. Hopkins: A Literary Biography.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47267933257977,"sku":"9781943665860","price":34.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/RWEzYqLcuZ9781943665860.webp?v=1768873346","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-hindered-hand-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}