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The Nadir and the Zenith - Temperance and Excess in the Early African American Novel (Paperback)
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The Nadir and the Zenith - Temperance and Excess in the Early African American Novel (Paperback)
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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, in addition to postbellum race relations
in the United States, includes white and black temperance movements
and their discourses. Despite its proliferation and 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 suggests that the
historical moment when black people's "status in American society"
reached its lowest point-- what historian Rayford Logan called the
"Nadir"--coincides with the zenith of black novelistic productivity
before World War II. Pochmara examines authors such as William
Wells Brown, Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frances
Ellen Watkins Harper, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, and Amelia E.
Johnson. Together, these six writers published no fewer than
seventeen novels in the years of the Nadir (1877-1901), surpassing
the creativity of all New Negro prose writers and the number of
novels they published during the height of the Harlem Renaissance
in the 1920s.
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