..". absorbing biographical study... " -- BlackEnterprise

"Meticulously researched and thoroughlyengaging... " -- Tulsa Studies in Women'sLiterature

..". a splendid study... excellent... " --Choice

"Color, Sex, and Poetry provides both the bread andthe meat of critical analysis and exploration of the lives of three Black womenwriters." -- Belles Lettres

..". Hull succeeds not onlyin exploring writers whose work is hampered by their 'split authorial personalities'but also in outlining the effects of economic circumstances on literaryproduction." -- Signs

A biographical/critical study of threeHarlem Renaissance poets -- Angelina Weld Grimk, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and GeorgiaDouglas Johnson -- during a rich and colorful period. Writing from a black feministcritical perspective, Hull recovers these black foremothers and in the processshakes up the traditional black literary canon.

Spanning the gamut of literary genres, from autobiographical short stories to poetry, journalism, and novelettes, this is a comprehensive collection of one of America's most seminal women writers. A testament to the nineteenth century as birthplace for black woman writers, The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson offers insight into the themes of oppression and intolarance, often considered dangerous or ignored in the nineteenth century, but now pervade much writing today. Themes such as crossing racial boundaries, infused with Dunbar-Nelson's autobiographical fervor

These works are as multi-faceted as their writer, who was a teacher, editor, public speaker, and campaign manager of mixed white, black, and Indian descent, born in New Orleans in 1875. Her pieces span the full range of literary genres - from short stories, fluffy romances, mystical novelettes, poetry, and autobiographical pieces to realistic racial drama, astute political commentary and essays, and lively newspaper columns - all bearing the stamp of her own cultural ambivalence and complex personality.

These works are as multi-faceted as their writer, who was a teacher, editor, public speaker, and campaign manager of mixed white, black, and Indian descent, born in New Orleans in 1875. Her pieces span the full range of literary genres - from short stories, fluffy romances, mystical novelettes, poetry, and autobiographical pieces to realistic racial drama, astute political commentary and essays, and lively newspaper columns - all bearing the stamp of her own cultural ambivalence and complex personality.