Rethinking Pauline Hopkins: Plagiarism, Appropriation, and African American Cultural Production

Yarborough, Richard; Pavletich, JoAnn; Dworkin, Ira; Dembowitz, Lauren

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“…Against the backdrop of a history in which Black creators have often been denigrated as imitators or thieves, literary scholars wrestled to reconcile their desire to defend Hopkins with their bafflement as to why she would deliberately engage in practices that they believed "would have been understood as an illegitimate appropriation." 77 However, just as writing about book-making strengthens doubt already raised in scholarship on copyright that Hopkins's technique would have universally been seen as plagiarism, situating these discoveries alongside other recent work on text reuse offers compelling evidence that for much of Hopkins's lifetime "unacknowledged borrowing" on this scale was simply not unusual. 78 Drawing on a series of author's notebooks, McGillen has shown how, with the help of amanuenses, the celebrated latenineteenth century German novelist Theodor Fontane amassed a vast archive of snippets of newspaper reports, journal articles, letters, historical documents, and monographs.…”

Section: Ii: Compiling Compilations: Book-making In Aggregatementioning

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Content Generation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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2023

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This article reconsiders the role of compiling in the modern history of authorship. Nineteenth-century readers viewed compiling as the purest form of "book-making," a mechanistic, market-oriented model of authorship that stood in opposition to authorial genius. The article examines these authorial models' intertwined origins in emergent industrial capitalism, and argues that book-making retained currency as a model into the early twentieth century partly because unattributed text reuse remained common. It also argues that in the aggregate, unattributed text reuse had epistemic and informational effects that anticipated challenges we are grappling with following the development of large language models.

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Section: Ii: Compiling Compilations: Book-making In Aggregatementioning

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Content Generation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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An Unexpected Direction: Pauline Hopkins, S. E. F. C. C. Hamedoe, and “The Dark Races of the Twentieth Century”

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2020

American Literary History

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This essay mines the earliest and most influential of African American literary magazines, the Boston-based Colored American Magazine (CAM) (1900–09), and its southern rival, the Atlanta-based Voice of the Negro (1904–07), to investigate how black writers and activists addressed the links between US race relations, settler colonialism, and empire in the Pacific. Spanning these two periodicals, Pauline Hopkins’s work as an editor and contributor grappled with the question of how to represent, engage, and position Black Americans in a globalizing world that was at once becoming more vast, heterogeneous, and integrated. Race remained a powerful structuring principle, yet it accrued dynamic new meanings in the era of new imperialism. Along the way, the essay investigates an unexplored facet of Hopkins’s authorship and compositional style. It speculates that Hopkins may have published under another as yet unattributed pen name. The enigmatic S. E. F. C. C. Hamedoe was one of the most significant of regular CAM contributors. Before disappearing from print history, Hamedoe published a four-year-long series that mapped the political contours of the emerging Global South, crisscrossing continents and oceans. The extensive connections between Hamedoe’s writings and Hopkins’s final known completed series beg the question of whether they were one and the same.The series allowed Hopkins to experiment with various epistemologies of racial and historical knowledge in her efforts to formulate an understanding of Blackness that, like the episodic serial form, was open-ended, accretive, and noncohesive.

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Content Generation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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2023

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<p>This article reconsiders the role of compiling in the modern history of authorship. Nineteenth-century readers viewed compiling as the purest form of "book-making," a mechanistic, market-oriented model of authorship that stood in opposition to authorial genius. The article examines these authorial models' intertwined origins in emergent industrial capitalism, and argues that book-making retained currency as a model into the early twentieth century partly because unattributed text reuse remained common. It also argues that in the aggregate, unattributed text reuse had epistemic and informational effects that anticipated challenges we are grappling with following the development of large language models.</p>

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Rethinking Pauline Hopkins: Plagiarism, Appropriation, and African American Cultural Production

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Content Generation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Content Generation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

An Unexpected Direction: Pauline Hopkins, S. E. F. C. C. Hamedoe, and “The Dark Races of the Twentieth Century”

Content Generation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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