Aphrodite's Daughters : Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance /
Honey, Maureen
Aphrodite's Daughters : Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance / Maureen Honey. - 1 online resource (288 p.) : 21 photographs
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Failed Promise of Mae V. Cowdery -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: List of Published Poetry -- Appendix B: Selected List of Unpublished Poetry -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Index -- About the Author
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 forms of female self-expression. Maureen Honey paints a vivid portrait of three African American women—Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, and Mae V. Cowdery—who came from very different backgrounds but converged in late 1920s Harlem to leave a major mark on the literary landscape. She examines the varied ways these poets articulated female sexual desire, ranging from Grimké’s invocation of a Sapphic goddess figure to Cowdery’s frank depiction of bisexual erotics to Bennett’s risky exploration of the borders between sexual pleasure and pain. Yet Honey also considers how they were united in their commitment to the female body as a primary source of meaning, strength, and transcendence. The product of extensive archival research, Aphrodite’s Daughters draws from Grimké, Bennett, and Cowdery’s published and unpublished poetry, along with rare periodicals and biographical materials, to immerse us in the lives of these remarkable women and the world in which they lived. It thus not only shows us how their artistic contributions and cultural interventions were vital to their own era, but also demonstrates how the poetic heart of their work keeps on beating.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780813570808
10.36019/9780813570808 doi
African American arts--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
African American poets--20th century.
African American women--Intellectual life.--New York (State)--New York
African-American arts--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism.
American poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.
American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism.--New York (State)--New York
Harlem Renaissance.
Modernism (Literature)--New York (State)--New York.
Women poets, American--20th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
Aphrodite's Daughters, Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance, MAUREEN HONEY, harlem, renaissance, harlem renaissance, race, racism, black, african american, african-american, poet, poem, poetry, grimke, bennett, cowdery, women, women's studies, feminist, feminism, body, female body, blackness, literary studies, gender studies, women studies, Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Mae V. Cowdery, African American poetic iconoclasts, racial uplift, poetic innovation, sexual liberation, female empowerment, candidly erotic forms of female self-expression, Sapphic goddess figure, frank depiction of bisexual erotics, risky exploration of the borders between sexual pleasure and pain, Grimké’s invocation of a Sapphic goddess figure, Cowdery’s frank depiction of bisexual erotics, Bennett’s risky exploration of the borders between sexual pleasure and pain, meaning, strength, transcendence, published poetry, unpublished poetry, artistic contributions, cultural interventions, women writers, African American women writers, black women writers, black poets, African American poets, African American female poets.
PS310.N4
811.5209928708996073
Aphrodite's Daughters : Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance / Maureen Honey. - 1 online resource (288 p.) : 21 photographs
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 forms of female self-expression. Maureen Honey paints a vivid portrait of three African American women—Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, and Mae V. Cowdery—who came from very different backgrounds but converged in late 1920s Harlem to leave a major mark on the literary landscape. She examines the varied ways these poets articulated female sexual desire, ranging from Grimké’s invocation of a Sapphic goddess figure to Cowdery’s frank depiction of bisexual erotics to Bennett’s risky exploration of the borders between sexual pleasure and pain. Yet Honey also considers how they were united in their commitment to the female body as a primary source of meaning, strength, and transcendence. The product of extensive archival research, Aphrodite’s Daughters draws from Grimké, Bennett, and Cowdery’s published and unpublished poetry, along with rare periodicals and biographical materials, to immerse us in the lives of these remarkable women and the world in which they lived. It thus not only shows us how their artistic contributions and cultural interventions were vital to their own era, but also demonstrates how the poetic heart of their work keeps on beating.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780813570808
10.36019/9780813570808 doi
African American arts--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
African American poets--20th century.
African American women--Intellectual life.--New York (State)--New York
African-American arts--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism.
American poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.
American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism.--New York (State)--New York
Harlem Renaissance.
Modernism (Literature)--New York (State)--New York.
Women poets, American--20th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
Aphrodite's Daughters, Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance, MAUREEN HONEY, harlem, renaissance, harlem renaissance, race, racism, black, african american, african-american, poet, poem, poetry, grimke, bennett, cowdery, women, women's studies, feminist, feminism, body, female body, blackness, literary studies, gender studies, women studies, Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Mae V. Cowdery, African American poetic iconoclasts, racial uplift, poetic innovation, sexual liberation, female empowerment, candidly erotic forms of female self-expression, Sapphic goddess figure, frank depiction of bisexual erotics, risky exploration of the borders between sexual pleasure and pain, Grimké’s invocation of a Sapphic goddess figure, Cowdery’s frank depiction of bisexual erotics, Bennett’s risky exploration of the borders between sexual pleasure and pain, meaning, strength, transcendence, published poetry, unpublished poetry, artistic contributions, cultural interventions, women writers, African American women writers, black women writers, black poets, African American poets, African American female poets.
PS310.N4
811.5209928708996073