This beautifully written book locates artists and writers of the Harlem Renaissance squarely within Modernism and puts women at the center of this project . . . the scholarship is impeccable and the work as a whole is brilliantly organized.
- Maureen E. Honey (editor of Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance) This beautifully written book locates artists and writers of the Harlem Renaissance squarely within Modernism and puts women at the center of this project . . . the scholarship is impeccable and the work as a whole is brilliantly organized.
- Maureen E. Honey (editor of Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance) Provocative and intriguing. This is a particularly rich book. Sherrard-Johnson moves deftly through literary and visual sources and offers fascinating and detailed readings of each. It offers a provocative methodology as well; the conversational structure enables scholars and students alike to challenge the confines of literary and visual study, as it enables a discussion of a shared and ambiguous grammar of race, gender, and sexuality that transcends medium.
(Legacy)
