Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

Indiana University Press

\""Heretofore scholars have not been willing\u2014perhaps, even been unable for many reasons both academic and personal\u2014to identify much of the Harlem Renaissance work as same-sex oriented. . . . An important book.\"" \u2014Jim Elledge This groundbreaking study explores the Harlem Renaissance as a literary phenomenon fundamentally shaped by same-sex-interested men. Christa Schwarz focuses on Count\u00E9e 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,\n\nGay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note;