Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance

ISBN-13: 9780253204301 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 256 str.

Gloria T. Hull

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..". absorbing biographical study... " --Black Enterprise"Meticulously researched and thoroughly engaging... " --Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature..". a splendid study... excellent... " --Choice"Color, Sex, and Poetry provides both the bread and the meat of critical analysis and exploration of the lives of three Black women writers." --Belles Lettres..". Hull succeeds not only in exploring writers whose work is hampered by their 'split authorial personalities' but also in outlining the effects of economic circumstances on literary production." --SignsA biographical/critical study of three Harlem Renaissance poets--Angelina Weld Grimke, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Georgia Douglas Johnson--during a rich and colorful period. Writing from a black feminist critical perspective, Hull recovers these black foremothers and in the process shakes up the traditional black literary canon.