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

by Gloria T. Hull (Author)

" . . . 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.