Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance
Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance "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…
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Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance
"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. . . . Christa Schwarz focuses on Count e Cullen, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Richard Bruce Nugent and explores these writers' sexually dissident or gay literary voices. An important book." --Jim ElledgeThis groundbreaking study explores the Harlem Renaissance as a literary phenomenon fundamentally shaped by same-sex-interested men.
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. The portrayals of men-loving men in these writers' works vary significantly. By contrast, Nugent--the only "out" gay Harlem Renaissance artist--portrayed men-loving men without
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