Color, sex & poetry : three women writers of the Harlem Renaissance / Gloria T. Hull.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hull, Akasha Gloria, author.

Contributor:

Indiana University. Press, publisher.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Blacks in the diaspora

Everywoman

Everywoman : studies in history, literature, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Johnson, Georgia Douglas, 1886-1966.

Johnson, Georgia Douglas.

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935.

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore.

Grimké, Angelina Weld, 1880-1958.

Grimké, Angelina Weld.

American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--African American authors.

African American women--New York (State)--New York--Intellectual life.

African American women.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Women poets, American--Biography.

Women poets, American.

African American women poets.

Poets, American--Homes and haunts.

Poets, American.

Intellectual life.

United States.

History.

Poets, American--Homes and haunts--New York (State)--New York.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.).

American poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

American poetry--Women authors.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

African American women--Intellectual life--20th century.

African American women--Intellectual life.

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

New York (State)--New York.

African American women poets--Biography.

African American women in literature.

African American poets--Biography.

African American poets.

African Americans in literature.

Harlem Renaissance.

New York (State)--New York--Harlem.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 240 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Color, sex and poetry

Place of Publication:

Bloomington ; & Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [1987]

Summary:

..". absorbing biographical study... " -- BlackEnterprise -- "Meticulously researched and thoroughlyengaging... " -- Tulsa Studies in Women'sLiterature -- ..". a splendid study... excellent... " --Choice -- "Color, Sex, and Poetry provides both the bread andthe meat of critical analysis and exploration of the lives of three Black womenwriters." -- Belles Lettres -- ..". Hull succeeds not onlyin exploring writers whose work is hampered by their 'split authorial personalities'but also in outlining the effects of economic circumstances on literaryproduction." -- Signs -- A biographical/critical study of threeHarlem Renaissance poets -- Angelina Weld Grimk, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and GeorgiaDouglas Johnson -- during a rich and colorful period. Writing from a black feministcritical perspective, Hull recovers these black foremothers and in the processshakes up the traditional black literary canon.

Contents:

Color, sex, and poetry in the Harlem Renaissance

Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)

Angelina Weld Grimké (1880-1956)

Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880-1966)

Color, sex, and poetry: the Renaissance legacy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-234) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Other Format:

Online version: Hull, Gloria T. Color, sex & poetry.

ISBN:

0253349745

9780253349743

0253204305

9780253204301

OCLC:

14241230