{"product_id":"black-american-writing-from-the-nadir-the-evolution-of-a-literary-tradition-1877-1915-9780807118061","title":"Black American Writing from the Nadir: The Evolution of a Literary Tradition, 1877--1915","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dickson D. Bruce\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - African American \u0026amp; Black\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this wide-ranging study, Dickson D. Bruce. Jr., analyzes post-Reconstruction and turn-of-the-century black writing, treating minor as well as major authors and considering a broad range of genres. Bruce shows that black writers confronted the conditions of an increasingly racist society in almost every aspect of their work--from their choice of subject matter to the way they drew their characters to the mood they portrayed. At the same time, these writers, most of whom were members of a small but growing black professional class, displayed a concern for middle-class aspirations and values. Bruce underscores the significance of discerning the tensions between these opposing forces in studying the literature of the time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBruce's attention to the body of work produced by minor writers, most of whom have remained obscure to all but a few literary scholars and historians, adds an important dimension to our understanding of African-American history and literature. His discussion of such better-known writers as Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and W. E. B. Du Bois places them in a fuller literary context, defining more clearly their significance as individuals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack American Writing from the Nadir\u003c\/i\u003e is an insightful, well-focused work that will benefit social and cultural historians as well as students of literature","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47781170774167,"sku":"9780807118061","price":3658.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780807118061.webp?v=1778051064","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/black-american-writing-from-the-nadir-the-evolution-of-a-literary-tradition-1877-1915-9780807118061","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}