Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

Schwarz argues for contemporary readings attuned to the complex relation between race, gender, and sexual orientation in Harlem Renaissance writing.

List of contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1.Gay Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance

2.Writing in the Harlem Renaissance: The Burden of Representation and Sexual Dissidence

3.Countée Cullen: "His Virtues Are Many; His Vices Unheard Of"

4.Langston Hughes: A "True 'People's Poet'"

5.Claude McKay: "Enfant Terrible of the Negro Renaissance"

6.Richard Bruce Nugent: The Quest for Beauty

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

A. B. Christa Schwarz is an independent scholar and lives in Germany.

Summary

Explores the Harlem Renaissance as a literary phenomenon fundamentally shaped by same-sex-interested men. This work focuses on Countze Cullen, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Richard Bruce Nugent and explores these writers' sexually dissident or gay literary voices.

Product details

• Authors: A. B. Christa Schwarz, A.B. Christa Schwarz, Schwarz a B Christa
• Assisted by: Darlene Clark Hine (Editor), John McCluskey (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.07.2003
• EAN: 9780253216076
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21607-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 234 mm x 156 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 374 g
• Illustrations: 4 b&w photos, 1 bibliog., 1 index
• Series: Blacks in the Diaspora (Paperb; Blacks in the Diaspora; Blacks in the Diaspora (Paperb
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies