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DIVA collection of writings and artwork by Richard Bruce Nugent, an important yet heretofore obscure figure of the Harlem Renaissance./div
Author : Bruce Nugent
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822329138
DIVA collection of writings and artwork by Richard Bruce Nugent, an important yet heretofore obscure figure of the Harlem Renaissance./div
Author : Richard Bruce Nugent
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 2002-05-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0822383616
Richard Bruce Nugent (1906–1987) was a writer, painter, illustrator, and popular bohemian personality who lived at the center of the Harlem Renaissance. Protégé of Alain Locke, roommate of Wallace Thurman, and friend of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, the precocious Nugent stood for many years as the only African-American writer willing to clearly pronounce his homosexuality in print. His contribution to the landmark publication FIRE!!, “Smoke, Lilies and Jade,” was unprecedented in its celebration of same-sex desire. A resident of the notorious “Niggeratti Manor,” Nugent also appeared on Broadway in Porgy (the 1927 play) and Run, Little Chillun (1933) Thomas H. Wirth, a close friend of Nugent’s during the last years of the artist’s life, has assembled a selection of Nugent’s most important writings, paintings, and drawings—works mostly unpublished or scattered in rare and obscure publications and collected here for the first time. Wirth has written an introduction providing biographical information about Nugent’s life and situating his art in relation to the visual and literary currents which influenced him. A foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. emphasizes the importance of Nugent for African American history and culture.
Author : Bruce Nugent
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 2002-05-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
DIVA collection of writings and artwork by Richard Bruce Nugent, an important yet heretofore obscure figure of the Harlem Renaissance./div
Author : A.B. Christa Schwarz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 2003-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253216076
"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.
Author : Richard Bruce Nugent
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 2024-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 153150826X
Gentleman Jigger stands as a landmark novel, celebrated for its candid exploration of Black sexuality set against the dynamic backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance. The story follows Stuartt, a defiantly queer artist, who navigates the complexities of racial and sexual identity in a period of profound cultural upheaval. Originating from a distinguished light-skinned Black family in Washington D.C., Stuartt immerses himself into the burgeoning arts scene of Harlem, where he aligns with the "Niggeratti," a group of young, rebellious artists and writers. This collective boldly challenges their elders’ conviction that their creative endeavors should be dedicated solely to the advancement of racial equality. When their rebellion fizzles and they go their separate ways, Stuartt moves downtown to Greenwich Village where, where he fully indulges in his desires, intertwines with underworld figures, and achieves unexpected fame and fortune. It is also a world that, until his Hollywood debut, assumes that he is white. Part fictionalized autobiography, part social satire, Gentleman Jigger opens up a whole new dimension not only of the Harlem Renaissance but also of the racial and sexual politics of the Jazz Age.
Author : Wallace Thurman
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 1926
Category : African American authors
ISBN :
Author : Wallace Thurman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486316211
Minor classic of the Harlem Renaissance centers on the larger-than-life inhabitants of an uptown apartment building. The rollicking satire's characters include stand-ins for Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alain Locke.
Author : Wallace Thurman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0486461343
A source of controversy upon its 1929 publication, this novel was the first to openly address color prejudice among black Americans. The author, an active member of the Harlem Renaissance, offers insightful reflections of the era's mood and spirit in an enduringly relevant examination of racial, sexual, and cultural identity.
Author : Alice Randall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1608192350
Attending the funeral of her Pentagon special advocate ex-husband, a bewildered woman encounters a British socialist and probable spy who possesses very different knowledge of the deceased's personality, a situation that sparks their shared investigation into her ex's complicated life. By the NAACP Image Award finalist author of The Wind Done Gone.
Author : Herb Boyd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 23,44 MB
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416548122
Baldwin's Harlem is an intimate portrait of the life and genius of one of our most brilliant literary minds: James Baldwin. Perhaps no other writer is as synonymous with Harlem as James Baldwin (1924-1987). The events there that shaped his youth greatly influenced Baldwin's work, much of which focused on his experiences as a black man in white America. Go Tell It on the Mountain, The Fire Next Time, Notes of a Native Son, and Giovanni's Room are just a few of his classic fiction and nonfiction books that remain an essential part of the American canon. In Baldwin's Harlem, award-winning journalist Herb Boyd combines impeccable biographical research with astute literary criticism, and reveals to readers Baldwin's association with Harlem on both metaphorical and realistic levels. For example, Boyd describes Baldwin's relationship with Harlem Renaissance poet laureate Countee Cullen, who taught Baldwin French in the ninth grade. Packed with telling anecdotes, Baldwin's Harlem illuminates the writer's diverse views and impressions of the community that would remain a consistent presence in virtually all of his writing. Baldwin's Harlem provides an intelligent and enlightening look at one of America's most important literary enclaves.