JOURNAL ARTICLE

Cultural Nationalism in Women's Lyrical Ballads of the Harlem Renaissance.

  • Published In: Modernism/Modernity, 2024, v. 31, n. 1. P. 147 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Yanota, Erin 3 of 3

Abstract

This article argues that women poets writing in the Harlem Renaissance marshaled the communal connotations of ballad form and genre to enter covertly into and influence the masculine domain of Black cultural nationalism. The elasticity of the ballad enabled Georgia Douglas Johnson, Helene Johnson, and Gwendolyn Bennett to articulate a subject position wherein Black women could contribute to the effort to cultivate a New Negro consciousness as Black women poets. This reading shows that the respectability politics of their conventional poems overlay demands for racial and gender justice and sovereignty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Modernism/Modernity. 2024/01, Vol. 31, Issue 1, p147
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:1071-6068
  • DOI:10.1353/mod.2024.a935449
  • Accession Number:179343075
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