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Angelina Weld Grimké (1880
- 1958)
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 Color,
Sex and Poetry : Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
(Blacks in the Diaspora) by
Gloria T. Hull
A biographical/critical study of three Harlem
Renaissance poets — Angelina Weld Grimke, Alice Dunbar-Nelson,
and Georgia Douglas Johnson — during a rich and colorful period.
Writing from a black feminist critical perspective, Hull recovers
these black foremothers and in the process shakes up the
traditional black literary canon.
" . . . Hull succeeds not only in exploring
writers whose work is hampered by their 'split authorial
personalities' but also in outlining the effects of economic
circumstances on literary production." — Signs
"Color, Sex, and Poetry provides both the
bread and the meat of critical analysis and exploration of the
lives of three Black women writers." — Belles Lettres
The
Other Reconstruction : Where Violence and Womanhood Meet in the
Writings of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Angelina Weld Grimke, and Nella
Larsen (Studies in African American History and Culture) by
Erica M. Miller
The Other Reconstruction examines
groundbreaking works by three African American women whose
writings expose the economic, political, and social factors that
sustained race violence in post-Reconstruction United States.
Their works demonstrate that fixed representations--of race,
gender, and class--are a prerequisite of tolerated interracial and
intraracial violence. Ida Wells-Barnett's works challenge the
"lynching narrative" and reveal that this violence
depended upon the personal and political silence of women.
Angelina Weld Grimke's short stories critique class-based
strategies of Negro advancement as they expand conventional
conceptions of race violence. Nella Larsen's novels explore the
problems of cultural fixity. These writers' examination of the
potential violence of fixed representations informs later acts of
cultural expression as well as future liberation struggles.
(Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1996; revised with new
preface, bibliography, and index)
Selected
Works of Angelina Weld Grimke (Schomburg Library of 19th Century
Black Women Writers) by
Carolivia Herron (Editor)
Centered around the themes of death, women as
objects of desire, lost love, motherhood, and children, the poems
in this selection offer insight into the work of this well-known
abolitionist and advocate of women's rights. Including Grimke's
prose and drama, which often focus on lynching, this volume sheds
new light on a perspective characterized by the African-American
experience of racial pride and the reaction against racists acts.
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From Voices from the Gaps- Women Writers of Color
Angelina Weld Grimké (not to be confused with
her great aunt Angelina Emily Grimké Weld) was born in Boston,
Massachusetts, on February 27th in 1880, the only child of
Archibald Grimké and Sara Stanley. Archibald Grimké came from a
biracial family; his father was a white man and his mother was a
black slave. Sara Stanley was from a prominent white family.
When Grimké was three years old, her mother
left her father, taking her daughter with her. After four years
she returned Angelina to her father and the child never saw her
mother again. Archibald, Angelina's father, was a well known
lawyer who was the executive director of the NAACP. Angelina was
able to attend one of the finest schools in Massachusetts, the
Carleton Academy in Ashburnham.
After high school, she went to the Boston Normal
School of Gymnastics, and graduated in 1902 with a Physical
Education degree. After five years of teaching gym classes, she
moved to Washington D.C. and became an English teacher at
Armstrong Manual Training School, later transferring to Dunbar
High School. She finally retired in 1926.
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From Modern American Poets, Introduction to The
Selected Works of Angelina Weld Grimké by Carolivia Herron
Excerpt:
Grimké's projected volume thus moves from inner
death to outer death, from the metaphorical death and repudiation
of the love of one who loves too much to the literal death of a
publicly mourned figure in a communal occasion of grief.
The first poem not only records the failure of love for the
narrator, but also masks the fact that the love Grimké preferred
to receive, the love she missed, was probably that of a woman in a
lesbian relationship. Critics such as Gloria Hull in Color,
Sex, and Poetry, and Barbara Christian in Black
Feminist Criticism, have discussed the hidden lesbian life of
Angelina Weld Grimké as it affects her poetry. A large percentage
of the Grimké poetic canon is indeed a record of her attempt to
love and be loved by another woman. Many of these poems, such as
"Another Heart Is Broken," "Naughty Nan," and
"Caprichosa," are here published for the first time...
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From Sappho.com. This site hosts some of
Grimké's poetry.
Excerpt:
Angelina Weld Grimké was born in 1880 in
Boston, the only child of Archibald Grimké and Sarah Stanley.
Angelina had a mixed racial background; her father was the son of
a white man and a black slave, and her mother was from a prominent
white family. Her parents named her after her great aunt Angelina
Grimké Weld, a famous white abolitionist and women's rights
advocate.
Angelina received a physical education degree at
the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics in 1902. She worked as a
gym teacher until 1907, when she became an English teacher, and
she continued to teach until her retirement in 1926. During her
teaching career, she wrote poetry, fiction, reviews, and
biographical sketches. She became best known for her play entitled
"Rachel." The story centers around an African-American
woman (Rachel) who rejects marriage and motherhood. Rachel
believes that by refusing to reproduce, she declines to provide
the white community with black children who can be tormented with
racist atrocities. "Rachel" was the only piece of
Angelina's work to be published as a book; only some of her
stories and poems were published, primarily in journals,
newspapers, and anthologies...
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