Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance - Couverture souple

Schwarz, A.B. Christa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0253216079 ISBN 13 : 9780253216076

Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2003

Synopsis

"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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indiana University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0253216079
• ISBN 13: 9780253216076
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible