Color, Sex, and Poetry

1988 Honorable Mention—Emily Toth Award

A study of three Harlem Renaissance poets - Angelina Weld Grimke, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Georgia Douglas Johnson - during a rich and colorful period. Writing from a black feminist critical perspective, it recovers these black foremothers and in the process shakes up the traditional black literary canon.

" . . . 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.