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3486086The Nadir and the Zenithhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-nadir-and-the-zenith-9780820358925/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2970566/7eaa32e6-8e4d-40f3-9d54-485efa2228d0.jpg?v=638384702663570000608676MXNUniversity of Georgia PressInStock/Ebooks/<p><em>The Nadir and the Zenith</em> 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 peoples status in American society reached its lowest point what historian Rayford Logan called the Nadircoincides with the zenith of black novelistic productivity before World War II.</p><p>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 (18771901), 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.</p>...3422493The Nadir and the Zenith608676https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-nadir-and-the-zenith-9780820358925/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2970566/7eaa32e6-8e4d-40f3-9d54-485efa2228d0.jpg?v=638384702663570000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20219780820358925_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_<p><em>The Nadir and the Zenith</em> 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 peoples status in American society reached its lowest point what historian Rayford Logan called the Nadircoincides with the zenith of black novelistic productivity before World War II.</p><p>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 (18771901), 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.</p>...9780820358925_University of Georgia Presslibro_electonico_ce2853e7-db6e-38f7-8de9-a9b3afd790e1_9780820358925;9780820358925_9780820358925Anna PochmaraInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingram30-epub-2628f2ec-cea0-49c3-9d43-81cbf9cdb8c3.epub2021-05-01T00:00:00+00:00University of Georgia Press