Color, Sex, and Poetry

" . . . 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.