| Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance Contributor(s): Hull, Gloria T. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0253204305 ISBN-13: 9780253204301 Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1987 Annotation: This volume is a biographical/critical study of three poets--Angelina Weld Grimke, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Georgia Douglas Johnson. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.520 |
| LCCN: 86045580 |
| Series: Blacks in the Diaspora |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.18" W x 9.25" (0.82 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: . . . 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. --Signs A biographical/critical study of three Harlem Renaissance poets--Angelina Weld Grimké, 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. |