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A review by caitlin_89
Of One Blood; Or, the Hidden Self by Pauline E. Hopkins
2.0
Not a long read (4ish hours), but kind of tedious. I enjoyed the first third, the middle third was way too full of ornate descriptions that I thought didn't really add to the plot or meaning of the story, and the last third felt like it was dragging out the inevitable ending.
Read for school. Wouldn't recommend, and wouldn't read again, but I can see its usefulness at the beginning of our reading plan in our African and African American literature class, as it portrays a historical U.S. African American perspective on Africa as the noble motherland and "Ethiopia" as both homeland and promised land, and a place that embodies the opposite of the woes of unfortunates, as the main character says.
Read for school. Wouldn't recommend, and wouldn't read again, but I can see its usefulness at the beginning of our reading plan in our African and African American literature class, as it portrays a historical U.S. African American perspective on Africa as the noble motherland and "Ethiopia" as both homeland and promised land, and a place that embodies the opposite of the woes of unfortunates, as the main character says.