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Schwarz, A. B. Christa

 
9780253216076: Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance
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ISBN 10: 0253216079 ISBN 13: 9780253216076
Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 2003

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



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

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Editore
Indiana Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2003
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0253216079
ISBN 13 
9780253216076
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
209
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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