Aphrodite's Daughters : : Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance / / Maureen Honey.

The Harlem Renaissance was a watershed moment for racial uplift, poetic innovation, sexual liberation, and female empowerment. Aphrodite's Daughters introduces us to three amazing women who were at the forefront of all these developments, poetic iconoclasts who pioneered new and candidly erotic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 21 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Lyric Poetry of Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, and Mae V. Cowdery
  • 2. Angelina Weld Grimké's Sapphic Temple of Desire
  • 3. Harlem's Phoenix: Gwendolyn B. Bennett
  • 4. Shattered Mirror: The Failed Promise of Mae V. Cowdery
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A: List of Published Poetry
  • Appendix B: Selected List of Unpublished Poetry
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Further Reading
  • Index
  • About the Author