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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Main Author: Pochmara, Anna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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 temperance movements and their discourses. Despite the proliferation of black literature in this period, and its popularity at the time, African American fiction between Reconstruction and World War I has not attracted nearly as much scholarly attention as the Harlem Renaissance. Pochmara provocatively aims to suggest that the historical moment when black people's "status in American society" reached its lowest point-the so-called "Nadir"--Coincides with the zenith of black novelistic productivity before World War II. Pochmara's examination explores authors such as Charles W. Chesnutt, Julia C. Collins, W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sutton Griggs, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Lillian B. Jones Horace, James Weldon Johnson, Amelia E. Johnson, Edward A. Johnson, J. McHenry Jones, and Katherine D. Tillman. Altogether, they published no fewer than 33 novels between 1865 and 1918, surpassing the creativity of New Negro prose writers and the number of novels they published during the 1920s"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780820358925

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