Shadowed Dreams : Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance / Maureen Honey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Honey, Maureen, Editor.

McKay, Nellie

Series:

Multi-ethnic literatures of the Americas.

Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry.

American poetry--New York (State)--New York.

American poetry--Women authors.

American poetry--20th century.

African American women--Poetry.

African American women.

Harlem Renaissance.

Women--Poetry.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Second edition, revised and expanded.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2006]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The first edition of Shadowed Dreams was a groundbreaking anthology that brought to light the contributions of women poets to the Harlem Renaissance. This revised and expanded version contains twice the number of poems found in the original, many of them never before reprinted, and adds eighteen new voices to the collection to once again strike new ground in African American literary history. Also new to this edition are nine period illustrations and updated biographical introductions for each poet. Shadowed Dreams features new poems by Gwendolyn Bennett, Anita Scott Coleman, Mae Cowdery, Blanche Taylor Dickinson, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Jessie Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimké, Gladys Casely Hayford (a k a Aquah Laluah), Virginia Houston, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Helene Johnson, Effie Lee Newsome, Esther Popel, and Anne Spencer, as well as writings from newly discovered poets Carrie Williams Clifford, Edythe Mae Gordon, Alvira Hazzard, Gertrude Parthenia McBrown, Beatrice Murphy, Lucia Mae Pitts, Grace Vera Postles, Ida Rowland, and Lucy Mae Turner, among others. Covering the years 1918 through 1939 and ranging across the period’s major and minor journals, as well as its anthologies and collections, Shadowed Dreams provides a treasure trove of poetry from which to mine deeply buried jewels of black female visions in the early twentieth century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface to the Second Edition

Foreword to the 1989 Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

A Note on the Revised Text

Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902–1981)

Ethel Caution-Davis (1880 –1981)

Carrie Williams Clifford (1862–1934)

Anita Scott Coleman (1890 –1960)

Marion Grace Conover (?–?)

Mae V. Cowdery (1909–1953)

Clarissa Scott Delany (1901–1927)

Blanche Taylor Dickinson (1896 –?)

Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935)

Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882–1961)

Sarah Collins Fernandis (1863–1951)

Sarah Lee Brown Fleming (1876 –1963)

Alice E. Furlong (?–?)

Edythe Mae Gordon (1896 –?)

Angelina Weld Grimké (1880 –1958)

Gladys May Casely Hayford (1904 –1950)

Alvira Hazzard (1899–1953)

Virginia Houston (?–?)

Dorothy Vena Johnson (1898–1970)

Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877–1966)

Helen Aurelia Johnson (?–?)

Helene Johnson (1906 –1995)

Gertrude Parthenia McBrown (1902–1989)

Myra Estelle Morris (?–?)

Beatrice M. Murphy (1908–1992)

Pauli Murray (1910 –1985)

Effie Lee Newsome (1885–1979)

Lucia Mae Pitts (1904 –1973)

Esther Popel (1896 –1958)

Grace Vera Postles (1906 –?)

Ida Rowland (1904 –?)

Anne Spencer (1882–1975)

Clara Ann Thompson (1869–1949)

Lucy Mae Turner (1884 –?)

Lucy Ariel Williams (1905–1973)

Octavia B. Wynbush (1898– ca. 1972)

Appendix: Anthologies with Women’s Poetry and Collections of Poetry by Women of the Harlem Renaissance

About the editor

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-297).

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-8135-8620-8

OCLC:

1017610134