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Format: 1 online resource : , 21 photographs

ISBN: 9780813570808

Content: 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product of extensive archival research, Aphrodite’s Daughters draws from Grimké, Bennett, and Cowdery’s published and unpublished poetry, along with rare periodicals and biographical materials, to immerse us in the lives of these remarkable women and the world in which they lived.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.

Note: 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Promise of Mae V. Cowdery -- , Epilogue -- , Appendix A: List of Published Poetry -- , Appendix B: Selected List of Unpublished Poetry -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Further Reading -- , Index -- , About the Author , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.36019/9780813570808

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813570808

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Format: 1 online resource (288 pages) : , illustrations

ISBN: 9780813570808 (e-book)

Content: "Aphrodite's Daughters brings to dramatic life three lyrical poets of the Harlem Renaissance whose work was among the earliest to display erotic passion as a source of empowerment for women. Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, and Mae V. Cowdery are framed as bold pioneers whose verse opened new frontiers into women's sexuality at the dawn of a new century. Honey describes Grimké construction of a Sapphic deity inspiring acolytes to express forbidden same-sex desire while she outlines Bennett's exploration of sexual pleasure and pain and Cowdery's frank depiction of bisexual erotics. Grimké, Bennett, and Cowdery, she argues, embraced the lyric "I" as an expression of their modernity as artists, women, and participants in the New Negro Movement by highlighting the female body as a primary source of meaning, strength and transcendence. Honey juxtaposes each poet's creative work against her life writing, personal archive, and appearances in the black press. These new source materials dramatically illuminate verse that has largely appeared without its biographical context or modernist roots. Honey's highly nuanced bio-critical portraits of this unique cadre of New Negro poets reveal the fascinating complexity of their private lives, and she creates absorbing narratives for all three as they experienced sexual awakening in lesbian, heterosexual, and bisexual contexts. The vivid interplay between intimate, racial and artistic currents in their lives makes Aphrodite's Daughters a compelling story of three courageous women who dared to be sexually alive New Negro artists paving the way toward our own era. "--

Additional Edition: Print version: Honey, Maureen. Aphrodite's daughters : three modernist poets of the Harlem Renaissance. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016] ISBN 9780813570792

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: 1 online resource : , 21 photographs

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-8135-7080-8

Content: 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 1920's 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.

Note: Front matter -- , 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 , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8135-7079-4

Language: English

DOI: 10.36019/9780813570808