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Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance - Blacks in the Diaspora

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Indiana University Press

Book information

ISBN: 9780253342553
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 810.99206642
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 209
Weight: 476g
Height: 235mm
Width: 155mm
Spine width: 22mm