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Gay voices of the Harlem Renaissance
- Title
- Gay voices of the Harlem Renaissance / A.B. Christa Schwarz.
- Author
- Schwarz, A. B. Christa, 1972-
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2003.
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- Description
- x, 209 pages : portraits; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This groundbreaking study explores the Harlem Renaissance as a literary phenomenon fundamentally shaped by same-sex-interested men. Christa Schwarz focuses on Counte Cullen, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Richard Bruce Nugent and explores these writers' sexually dissident or gay literary voices. The portrayals of men-loving-men in these writers' works vary significantly. Schwarz locates in the poetry of Cullen, Hughes, and McKay the employment of contemporary gay code words, deriving from the Greek discourse of homosexuality and from Walt Whitman. By contrast, Nugent--the only "out" gay Harlem Renaissance artist--portrayed men-loving-men without reference to racial concepts or Whitmanesque codes. Schwarz argues for contemporary readings attuned to the complex relation between race, gender, and sexual orientation in Harlem Renaissance writing.
- Series Statement
- Blacks in the diaspora
- Uniform Title
- Blacks in the diaspora.
- Subjects
- Homosexuality and literature
- American literature > Male authors
- American literature > African American authors
- Gay men's writings, American
- African American gay people > Intellectual life
- American literature > Male authors > History and criticism
- History
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- Harlem Renaissance
- Gay men > Intellectual life
- Sex in literature
- Homosexuality and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- African American men in literature
- 1900-1999
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Gay men > United States > Intellectual life
- Gay men's writings, American > History and criticism
- United States
- New York (State) > New York
- Gay men in literature
- American literature > New York (State) > New York > History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index.
- Contents
- Gay Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance -- Writing in the Harlem Renaissance: the burden of representation and sexual dissidence -- Countée Cullen: "his virtues are many; his vices unheard of" -- Langston Hughes: a "true 'people's poet'" -- Claude McKay "enfant terrible of the Negro Renaissance" -- Richard Bruce Nugent: the quest for beauty.
- Call Number
- Sc E 03-1288
- ISBN
- 0253216079
- 9780253216076
- 0253342554
- 9780253342553
- LCCN
- 2002153777
- 9780253216076
- OCLC
- 51053375
- Author
- Schwarz, A. B. Christa, 1972-
- Title
- Gay voices of the Harlem Renaissance / A.B. Christa Schwarz.
- Imprint
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2003.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Blacks in the diasporaBlacks in the diaspora.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780253216076
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 03-1288