Gay rebel of the Harlem renaissance
Subtitle: selections from the work of Richard Bruce Nugent
By: edited and with an introduction by Thomas H. Wirth ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Contributors: Wirth, Thomas H., 1938-
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Durham, [N.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: African American gays -- Literary collections.; Racially mixed people -- Literary collections.; Gay men -- Literary collections.; African American arts.; Harlem Renaissance.
Genres: Literary collections.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-287) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Early work; title: Sahdji; title: Smoke, lilies, and jade; title: Narcissus; title: Scheme; title: Bastard song; title: Who asks this thing?; title: Geisha man (excerpt); title: The Bible stories; title: Beyond where the star stood still; title: The now discordant song of bells; title: Slender length of beauty; title: Tree with kerioth-fruit; title: Harlem; title: On Harlem; title: The dark tower; title: Gentleman Jigger (excerpts); title: Salt Lake saga; title: Meeting Raymond; title: Rent party; title: Negro art; title: Stuartt gets a job; title: Orini; title: Harlem renaissance personalities; title: On Georgette Harvey; title: On Rose McClendon; title: On the dark tower; title: On Blanche Dunn; title: On "Gloria Swanson"; title: On Alexander Gumby; title: On Carl van Vechten; title: After the Harlem renaissance; title: Transition; title: Pope Pius the only; title: Lunatique; title: You think to shame me; title: You see, I am a homosexual.