Go the Way Your Blood Beats
Subtitle: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Published: March 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780805047363
Subjects: Modern fiction; Gays' writings, American; African American Novel And Short Story; Sexuality In Literature; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; USA; General; African American lesbians; Gay; African American authors; American fiction
Description: Today's most distinguished writers and acclaimed new voices present extraordinary fiction on homosexuality in the lives of African Americans.

Featuring America's long-celebrated authorsJames Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Richard Wright - as well as the works of a new generation of critically heralded writers, including Sapphire, Jacqueline Woodson, Charles Harvey, Go the Way Your Blood Beats brings together a family of literary fiction that examines Black lesbian and gay identity, from inside the closet and out.

Through thirty-two stories, nearly half in print for the first time, writers from the Harlem Renaissance to the present examine such issues as homophobia, bisexuality, AIDS, cross-dressing, and accepting one's self.