Black Women Poets of Harlem Renaissance

by Emmanuel E. Egar

Overview

Most of the writers on the literary achievements of the poets of Harlem Renaissance focus their attention on Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen and W.E.B. DuBois. The women poets of this movement are either deliberately or inadvertently omitted or ignored. Black Women Poets of Harlem Renaissance presents a critical examination of the creative poetic achievements of five women writers during the Harlem Renaissance. This discussion is vital not only for public enlightenment, but also to validate the poetic achievements of Black women who wrote poetry for poetry, full of joy and passion. The validation of the poetic achievements of women in this movement should give us a full realization of the corpus of the Black literary achievements of this era.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761826170
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	09/18/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	124
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.04(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Emmanuel E. Egar is Chairperson in the Department of English, Theatre, Mass Communication, Humanities, and Modern Foreign Languages at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Georgia Douglas Johnson Chapter 4 Anne Spencer Chapter 5 Helen Johnson Chapter 6 Gwendolyn Bennett Chapter 7 Angelina Grimke Chapter 8 Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Deconstruction Chapter 9 To Criticize the Critics of Zora Neale Hurston's: Their Eyes Were Watching God Chapter 10 Dialect as Art in Their Eyes Were Watching God Chapter 11 Epilogue: The Other Voice of Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes Chapter 12 Bibliography Chapter 13 About the Author