The Nadir and the Zenith : Temperance and Excess in the Early African American Novel /

"The Nadir and the Zenith is a study of temperance and melodramatic excess in African American fiction before the Harlem Renaissance. Anna Pochmara combines formal analysis with attention to the historical context, which, apart from US postbellum race relations, includes also white and black te...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pochmara, Anna (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Temperance in literature.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
American fiction > African American authors.
American fiction.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
Noirs americains > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siecle.
Temperance dans la litterature.
Roman americain > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > Auteurs noirs americains > Histoire et critique.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 19th century.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The zenith & the nadir : the early African American novel
  • The excess of mulatta melodrama. Mulatta melodrama : mixed race and the melodramatic mode in the early Black novel
  • The apple falls far from the tree : matrilineal opposition in mulatta melodrama
  • The fall of man : White masculinity on trial
  • Black tropes of temperance. The genre mergers of the nadir : anti-drink literature, sentimentalism, and naturalism in Black temperance narratives
  • Aesthetic excess, ethical discipline, and racial indeterminacy : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Sowing and reaping
  • Tropes of temperance, specters of naturalism : Amelia E. Johnson's Clarence and Corinne
  • Enslavement to philanthropy, freedom from heredity : Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Uncalled
  • Metropolitan possibilities and compulsions : the mulatta and the dandy in Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Sport of the gods
  • Conclusion: The nadir and beyond : echoes of mulatta melodrama and the Black temperance novel in the early twentieth century.

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