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Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance - Blacks in the Diaspora

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"Heretofore scholars have not been willing-perhaps, even been unable for many reasons both academic and personal-to identify much of the Harlem Renaissance work as same-sex oriented. . . . An important book." -Jim Elledge
This groundbreaking study explores the Harlem Renaissance as a literary phenomenon fundamentally shaped by same-sex-interested men. Christa Schwarz focuses on Countée 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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Book information

ISBN: 9780253216076
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 810.99206642
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 264
Weight: 374g
Height: 156mm
Width: 234mm
Spine width: 12mm