...Benjamin Child Abstract With attention to representations of the land and labor in the postslavery agricultural South of the nadir—a period when American apartheid was at its most violent—this essay uses Paul Laurence Dunbar’s plantation poems and W. E. B. Du Bois’s cotton novel, The Quest...

...Sara Marcus Abstract This essay argues that the African American literature of the nadir, written during a moment when concepts of evolution and departures from linear time were deployed to the detriment of black life as well as in its defense, is a rich archive for analyzing the unpredictable...

... of some of the salient issues of our present nadir—the manipulation of opinion through the media, the untimely persistence of slavery in attitude and effect, and the power and potential of a decentralized, networked resistance. All three authors are committed to exploring the complexity of the attitudes...

... belonged to an era described by Rayford Logan ( 1954 ) as the nadir of American race relations. In the literary output of this period, white supremacists bemoaned the loss of the “Old Negro” and an “old tenderness” between master and slave; African American critical race theorists, on the other hand...

... War were ascendant during what has come to be known as the nadir of African American history, the reactionary postbellum period that saw the advent of racial segregation, an epidemic of anti-Black lynching, and the systematic abrogation of rights that had only recently been secured by African American...

... sketch, the satirist Moyshe Nadir ( 1916 ) describes how he goes to Shakespeare’s grave and tries to coax him out of his tomb to give the Elizabethan playwright some literary advice (see Berkowitz 2002 : 222–27). Through its heterodoxy in striving to improve Shakespeare—and in its humorous...

... that she so often encountered (212). Published during what historian Rayford Logan later termed the nadir, as antiblack violence and racial segregation became entrenched in American daily life, the original two-hundred-seventeen-page version of Overshadowed culminates with Herndon and son purposively...

... of civilization or with the Orient as a feminized scene of imaginary degeneration. It symbolized the height of secu- lar enlightenment and the nadir of despotic oppression. It was the biblical land of slaveholders even while it was the classical land of patriarchal authority and civilization. Egypt Land...

... as a feminized scene of imaginary degeneration. It symbolized the height of secu- lar enlightenment and the nadir of despotic oppression. It was the biblical land of slaveholders even while it was the classical land of patriarchal authority and civilization. Egypt Land contends that such dualisms had...

... as a feminized scene of imaginary degeneration. It symbolized the height of secu- lar enlightenment and the nadir of despotic oppression. It was the biblical land of slaveholders even while it was the classical land of patriarchal authority and civilization. Egypt Land contends that such dualisms had...

... or with the Orient as a feminized scene of imaginary degeneration. It symbolized the height of secu- lar enlightenment and the nadir of despotic oppression. It was the biblical land of slaveholders even while it was the classical land of patriarchal authority and civilization. Egypt Land contends...

... degeneration. It symbolized the height of secu- lar enlightenment and the nadir of despotic oppression. It was the biblical land of slaveholders even while it was the classical land of patriarchal authority and civilization. Egypt Land contends that such dualisms had a special rele- vance in the United...

... of civilization or with the Orient as a feminized scene of imaginary degeneration. It symbolized the height of secu- lar enlightenment and the nadir of despotic oppression. It was the biblical land of slaveholders even while it was the classical land of patriarchal authority and civilization. Egypt Land...

... of civilization or with the Orient as a feminized scene of imaginary degeneration. It symbolized the height of secu- lar enlightenment and the nadir of despotic oppression. It was the biblical land of slaveholders even while it was the classical land of patriarchal authority and civilization. Egypt Land...

... and political conflict in the United States. Egypt could be simultaneously white and black; it could stand with Greece and Rome as an ancient forebear of civilization or with the Orient as a feminized scene of imaginary degeneration. It symbolized the height of secu- lar enlightenment and the nadir...

..., but also because such pressures become internalized. The depth of the nadir is plumbed by Thomas Dixon, who gets the last word in Gilmore’s book. The general theme and trajectory of The War on Words will probably not sur- 668 American Literature prise scholars of the period, though...

... Twain, Stephen Crane, and Charles Chesnutt show how hard it is to write freely about race after the Civil War, not only because of outright oppression and market coercion, but also because such pressures become internalized. The depth of the nadir is plumbed by Thomas Dixon, who gets...

... Twain, Stephen Crane, and Charles Chesnutt show how hard it is to write freely about race after the Civil War, not only because of outright oppression and market coercion, but also because such pressures become internalized. The depth of the nadir is plumbed by Thomas Dixon, who gets...

..., but also because such pressures become internalized. The depth of the nadir is plumbed by Thomas Dixon, who gets the last word in Gilmore’s book. The general theme and trajectory of The War on Words will probably not sur- 668 American Literature prise scholars of the period, though...

... Twain, Stephen Crane, and Charles Chesnutt show how hard it is to write freely about race after the Civil War, not only because of outright oppression and market coercion, but also because such pressures become internalized. The depth of the nadir is plumbed by Thomas Dixon, who gets...