{"product_id":"the-nadir-and-the-zenith-anna-pochmara-9780820359021","title":"The Nadir and the Zenith: Temperance and Excess in the Early African American Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Nadir and the Zenith\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePochmara 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anna Pochmara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820359025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820359021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d","brand":"Anna Pochmara","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44127263949055,"sku":"9780820359021","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_effbde31-76bd-448c-80f2-39efa519c5bf.jpg?v=1687452680","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-nadir-and-the-zenith-anna-pochmara-9780820359021","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}