Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (Blacks in the Diaspora) Book

"... 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 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.Read More