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

. . . 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 poetsAngelina Weld Grimk?, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Georgia Douglas Johnsonduring 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.

1988 Honorable MentionEmily Toth Award

Three Poems

Preface

Chapter I: Introduction
Color, Sex, and Poetry in the Harlem Renaissance

Chapter II: Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)

Chapter III: Angelina Weld Grimke (1880-1956)

Chapter IV: Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880-1966)

Chapter V: Afterword
Color, Sex, and Petry: The Renaissance Legacy

Notes
Index