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04474aam a2200493 i 4500 001 D7D836F8EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220617010046 008 201007s2021 gaua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020041574 020 $a 0820359025 020 $a 9780820359021 020 $a 0820358916 020 $a 9780820358918 035 $a (OCoLC)1200833772 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d YDX $d ORU $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS153.N5 $b P63 2021 050 4 $a PS153.B53 $b P634 2021 082 00 $a 813/.309896073 $2 23 100 1 $a Pochmara, Anna, $e author. 245 14 $a The nadir & the zenith : $b temperance & excess in the early African American novel / $c Anna Pochmara. 246 3 $a Nadir and the zenith 264 1 $a Athens : $b The University of Georgia Press, $c [2021] 300 $a viii, 246 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Temperance in literature. 650 0 $a Characters and characteristics in literature. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Intellectual life $y 19th century. 650 7 $a African Americans $x Intellectual life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799627 650 7 $a American fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a American fiction $x African American authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807049 650 7 $a Characters and characteristics in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00852295 650 7 $a Temperance in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01147331 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Pochmara, Anna. $t Nadir and the zenith $d Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2020] $z 9780820358925 $w (DLC) 2020041575 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117011911.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D7D836F8EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search